The 11-years-old Luigi Ferri His Escape From The Gas Chamber

 The Horrible Story Of "11-year-old Luigi Ferri" His Escape From The Gas Chamber.

At Auschwitz, 11-year-old Luigi Ferri became a number—B7525. Like most other registered prisoners, this number was tattooed onto Luigi's forearm.

Before being deported to Auschwitz in 1944, Luigi had been staying with his Jewish grandmother in Trieste, Italy. When she was arrested, Luigi refused to leave her side and demanded to be taken with her. Nevertheless, they were soon separated in the camp. His grandmother was likely murdered in a gas chamber.

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Luigi faced incredible danger at Auschwitz, as most of the children deported there were murdered. His continued presence in the camp was extremely precarious.

 However, with the help of Dr. Otto Wolken, an Austrian Jewish physician and fellow inmate, Luigi avoided the gas chamber and was registered in the camp. For the next several months, Dr. Wolken helped further protect and take care of him. 

Both Luigi and Dr. Wolken were liberated at Auschwitz in January 1945. Luigi was one of only 500 children under the age of 15 to be liberated there.

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These children at the Theresienstadt ghetto and camp appeared to be happy and healthy. But this photograph was part of an elaborate hoax perpetrated by the Nazis.

The International Red Cross inspected Theresienstadt on this day in 1944 after Denmark’s government demanded information about Danish Jews imprisoned there.

To prepare for the visit, prisoners were forced to plant flowers and install benches and a playground. The Nazis deported thousands of prisoners to Auschwitz to alleviate overcrowding.

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The visitors saw well-dressed inmates, a soccer game, and musical performances in this “spa town.” Prisoners were pawns in the Nazis' choreographed show.

“If anybody would have come two weeks later, there was nothing left. The swings were gone, the playpens were gone, the rocking horses were gone, and the children were gone—all into the gas chambers," said Marianka May, a Theresienstadt survivor.

The Nazis resumed deportations after the visit. In total, two-thirds of the 140,000 Jews sent to Theresienstadt were deported; most were then killed. An additional 33,000 died in the ghetto.

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