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Stefan Baretzki was born in 1919 into a Bukovina German family in Cernăuți (Czernowitz), then part of the Kingdom of Romania. [1] Hermann Langbein, an Austrian historian and Auschwitz political prisoner, noted that Baretzki was born in the same town as Viktor Pestek, an Auschwitz guard executed by the Nazis because he helped Siegfried Lederer, a Czech Jew, to escape. [2]
Reinhold Hanning (28 December 1921 – 30 May 2017 [1] [2]) was an SS guard at the Auschwitz concentration camp in occupied Poland. [3] Hanning volunteered for the Waffen SS at the age of 18 at the urging of his stepmother. [4] During the Holocaust, he was an SS guard from early 1942 until June 1944. [5]
As Soviets approached Auschwitz, Hitler's elite guard, the SS, forced around 60,000 prisoners there - mostly Jews - to move further west. Between 19 and 21 January 1945, one of those marches ...
Oskar Gröning (10 June 1921 – 9 March 2018) [1] was a German SS Unterscharführer who was stationed at the Auschwitz concentration camp.His responsibilities included counting and sorting the money taken from prisoners, and he was in charge of the personal property of arriving prisoners.
Irma Ilse Ida Grese [a] (7 October 1923 – 13 December 1945) was a Nazi concentration camp Helferin at Ravensbrück, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, and Bergen-Belsen.She has been widely known as the "Hyena of Auschwitz" and the "Beast of Belsen" for the atrocities she committed in Birkenau.
Johanna Langefeld (née May; 5 March 1900, Kupferdreh, Germany – 26 January 1974) was a Nazi German guard and supervisor at three Nazi concentration camps: Lichtenburg, Ravensbrück, and Auschwitz. She was arrested and imprisoned for her role in the Holocaust, but she escaped prison and was never tried.
Since Auschwitz was liberated in January 1945, the house at 88 Legionow Street had been in the private hands of a Polish family. But last year it was acquired by the Counter Extremism Project, a ...
Viktor Pestek [cs, de] (() 18 April 1924 – () 8 October 1944) was born in Czernowitz, Bukovina—which was then Romanian territory—to a devoutly Catholic ethnic German family. [10] [11] Auschwitz guard Stefan Baretzki grew up in the same town; he and Pestek were