- Born
- Died
- Henryk Mandelbaum was born on December 15, 1922 in Olkusz, Malopolskie, Poland. He died on June 17, 2008 in Bytom, Slaskie, Poland.
- Prisoner at the Auschwitz concentration camp and last surviving Polish member of the "Sonderkommando". The Sonderkommando comprised Jewish prisoners who were made to search the corpses of dead Jews for valuables (including extracting gold in their teeth) after the prisoners were executed. They then carried the bodies to the camp crematoria for burning.
- In 2006, met with Pope Benedict XVI during his visit to Auschwitz.
- A member of the Sonderkommando - Jewish prisoners who were forced to empty the gas chambers at Auschwitz after fellow Jews were gassed and burned.
- Forced by the Nazis to search the body cavities of fellow Jews for valuables and pull out gold teeth and fillings after they were executed at Auschwitz.
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