Ala Gertner, born on this day in 1912, was a Polish Jewish woman who helped facilitate the Sonderkommando revolt at Auschwitz, blowing up one of the crematoriums there. She was executed for this act of resistance in 1945.

On this day in 1958, Bulgarian anarcho-syndicalist labor organizer Manol Vassev was assassinated by communist secret police, one day before his scheduled release from prison.