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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/AlabamaHotcakes on 2025-07-18 21:48:14+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about Franceska Mann. A Jewish ballerina who arrived at Auschwitz in 1943 and was about to be gassed, she managed to take a pistol from an SS-officer and then killed him with it, starting a riot. The riot ended when SS reinforcements arrived and mowed the prisoners down with machineguns.