Auschwitz Death Books

During 1942, the about 100 deaths per day from sickness and old age increased during the May to October typhus epidemic to about 280 deaths per day. To prevent the spread of typhus, it was necessary to cremate the bodies, so in September construction started on the 2 cremation buildings, and below ground morgues, to handle the increased corpse load.

Until 1991, the true Auschwitz camps death count was unknown. It's alleged between 750,000 and 1 million people were murdered in the below ground rooms, and cremated in the two buildings during 1943 and '44.

However the German Auschwitz Death Books, released by the Soviet government in 1991, records names, and causes of death, for people from the 3 main camps, Auschwitz I, Birkenau, and Monowitz, who died from September 1941, to December, 1943. Causes were primarily typhus, but also other diseases, heart attacks, cancer, and old age. Extrapolating from these figures:

• about 67,227 people died from September, 1941 to December, '43 (only 43 days are missing for 1942 and '43)
• an estimated 63,069 people died during 1941, '44, and the 43 missing '42 and '43 months, and
• this totals 130,300 deaths, or an average of 90 per day.

Start

End

Known deaths

Extrapolated deaths

Total deaths

No. Of days

Deaths per day

Yearly totals

5/1/40

12/31 /40

2,000

2,000

245

8

2,000

1/1/41

8/3/41

4,000

4,000

215

19

8/4/41

9/10/41

1,498

1,498

38

39

9/11/41

10/20/41

1,500

1,500

40

38

10/21/41

11/22/41

1,490

1,490

33

45

11/23/41

12/31/41

1,500

1,500

39

38

9,988

1/1/42

1/2/42

69

69

2

35

1/3/42

2/23/42

1,500

1,500

52

29

2/24/42

3/21/42

1,496

1,496

26

58

3/22/42

4/7/42

1,490

1,490

17

88

4/8/42

4/30/42

1429

14,29

23

62

5/1/42

5/15/42

1,500

1,500

15

100

5/16/42

5/29/42

1,473

1,473

14

105

5/30/42

6/13/42

1,500

1,500

15

100

6/14/42

6/25/42

1,500

1,500

12

125

6/26/42

7/6/42

1,499

1,499

11

136

7/7/42

7/15/42

1,498

1,498

9

166

7/16/42

7/27/42

1,460

1,460

12

122

7/28/42

8/5/42

1,498

1,498

9

166

8/6/42

8/16/42

1,472

1,472

11

134

8/17/42

8/21/42

1,489

1,489

5

298

8/22/42

8/27/42

1,498

1,498

6

250

8/28/42

9/1/42

1,492

1,492

5

298

9/2/42

9/6/42

1,498

1,498

5

300

9/7/42

9/10/42

1,498

1,498

4

375

9/11/42

9/15/42

1,492

1,492

5

298

9/16/42

9/21/42

1,404

1,404

6

234

9/22/42

9/27/42

1,488

1,488

6

248

9/28/42

10/1/42

1,442

1,442

4

361

10/2/42

10/11/42

1,438

1,438

10

144

10/12/42

10/21/42

1,482

1,482

10

148

10/22/42

11/2/42

1,484

1,484

12

124

11/3/42

11/12/42

1,490

1,490

10

149

11/13 /42

12/4/42

3,000

3,000

22

136

12/5/42

12/14/42

1,230

1,230

10

123

12/15/42

12/31/42

1,500

1,500

17

88

44,309

1/1/43

1/15/43

1,492

1,492

15

99

1/16/43

1/28/43

1,484

1,484

13

114

1/29/43

2/7/43

1,486

1,486

10

149

2/8/43

2/15/43

1,500

1,500

8

188

2/16/43

2/22/43

1,442

1,442

7

206

2/23/43

3/1/43

1,442

1,442

7

206

3/2/43

3/6/43

1,488

1,488

5

298

3/7/43

3/12/43

1,498

1,498

6

250

3/13/43

3/17/43

1,492

1,492

5

298

3/18/43

3/23/43

1,460

1,460

6

243

3/24/43

4/1/43

1,428

1,428

9

159

4/2/43

4/13/43

1,500

1,500

12

125

4/14/43

5/13/43

1,480

1,480

30

49

5/14/43

6/16/43

3,000

3,000

34

88

6/17/43

7/1/43

1,465

1,465

15

98

7/2/43

7/28/43

1,480

1,480

27

55

7/29/43

8/29/43

1,494

1,494

32

47

8/30/43

10/12 /43

3,000

3,000

44

68

10/13 /43

11/11 /43

1,490

1,490

30

50

11/12 /43

12/10 /43

1,414

1,414

29

49

12/11 /43

12/28 /43

1,500

1,500

18

83

12/29 /43

12/30 /43

1,494

1,494

2

747

12/31 /43

12/31 /43

970

970

1

970

36,499

1/1/44

12/31 /44

36,000

36,000

366

98

36,000

1/1/45

1/18/45

1,500

1,500

18

83

1,500

Totals

67,227

63,069

130,296

130,296