Notable inmates

Rose Grunapfel Meth (October 11, 1919 – October 11, 2013) born as Ruzia Grunapfel, also known as Reisel Grunapfel Meth, was one of several Jewish participants in the October 7, 1944 "Sonderkommando uprising" of inmates in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

Rosette "Rose" Wolczak (19 March 1928 – 23 November 1943) was a Jewish girl murdered in the Holocaust.

Rozette Lopes-Dias Van Thyn (September 19, 1921 – June 27, 2010), known as Rose Van Thyn, was a Holocaust survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II in Poland.

Rose Warfman (née Gluck; 4 October 1916 – 17 September 2016) was a French survivor of Auschwitz and member of the French Resistance.

Rosy Lilienfeld (January 17, 1896 – September 30, 1942) was a German artist. Lilienfeld was born on January 17, 1896, in Frankfurt, Germany.

Roxana Saberi (born April 26, 1977) is an American journalist who works as a correspondent for CBS News.

Roy Allen (August 1, 1918 – August 5, 1991) was an American, born in the north Philadelphia neighborhood of Olney.

The Kraków pogrom was the first anti-Jewish riot in post World War II Poland, that took place on 11 August 1945 in the Soviet-occupied city of Kraków, Poland.

Roza Robota (1921 – 6 January 1945) or Róża Robota in Polish, referred to in other sources as Rojza, Rózia or Rosa, was the leader of a group of four women Holocaust resistors hanged in the Auschwitz concentration camp for their role in the Sonderkommando prisoner revolt of 7 October 1944.

Rubén Ruiz Ibárruri (Russian: Рубе́н Руи́с Иба́ррури; January 9, 1920 – September 3, 1942) was a Spanish military officer and Soviet commander of the 100th Machine Gun Company of an independent training battalion of the 35th guards rifle division of the 62nd army of the Stalingrad Front.

Rubino Romeo Salmonì (22 January 1920 – 10 July 2011) was an Italian author known for his book In the End, I Beat Hitler, based on his experiences as a survivor of Auschwitz II–Birkenau during the Holocaust.