Kampfgruppe Auschwitz
The Auschwitz Combat Group (German: Kampfgruppe Auschwitz, Polish: Grupa Bojowa Oświęcim) was international left-wing resistance organization in Auschwitz concentration camp.
History
Kampfgruppe Auschwitz was founded in 1943. In 1944, together with the Polish Underground State, the Kampfgruppe set up an overall Auschwitz Military Council to coordinate resistance.
Members
The majority of members of the Group were communists, socialists, captured Polish and Soviet partisans, members of anti-Nazi resistance movements, and former members of International Brigades. The members of the Kampfgruppe were from Austria, Poland, France, Germany, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union. Among them were also many Jews.[1]
Leadership
- Ernst Burger (nom de guerre Adam) - political leader of Kampfgruppe Auschwitz, member of anti-nazi Austrian Resistance.[2]
- Hermann Langbein (nom de guerre Wiktor)[3]
- Józef Cyrankiewicz (nom de guerre Rot) responsible for cooperation with resistance groups in another nazi concentration camps[4]
- Tadeusz Hołuj (nom de guerre Robert) responsible for cooperation with another resistance groups in Auschwitz[5]
- Heinrich Dürmayer - was appointed after Hermann Langbein
- Ludwig Soswinski - was appointed after Tadeusz Hołuj
- Bruno Baum - was appointed after Ernst Burger
Another notable members
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See also
- Resistance movement in Auschwitz
- Austrian Resistance
- Polish resistance movement in World War II
- Jewish resistance under Nazi rule
References
- Hermann Langbein - Keine vollwertigen Menschen maislinger.info
- Henryk Świebocki: Die "Kampfgruppe Auschwitz". In: Wacław Długoborski, Franciszek Piper (Hrsg.): Auschwitz 1940–1945. Studien zur Geschichte des Konzentrations- und Vernichtungslagers Auschwitz, Oswiecim 1999, III. Band Widerstand
- Henryk Świebocki: Die "Kampfgruppe Auschwitz". In: Wacław Długoborski, Franciszek Piper (Hrsg.): Auschwitz 1940–1945. Studien zur Geschichte des Konzentrations- und Vernichtungslagers Auschwitz., Oswiecim 1999, III. Band Widerstand
- Henryk Świebocki: Die "Kampfgruppe Auschwitz". In: Wacław Długoborski, Franciszek Piper (Hrsg.): Auschwitz 1940–1945. Studien zur Geschichte des Konzentrations- und Vernichtungslagers Auschwitz., Oswiecim 1999, III. Band Widerstand
- Henryk Świebocki: Die "Kampfgruppe Auschwitz". In: Wacław Długoborski, Franciszek Piper (Hrsg.): Auschwitz 1940–1945. Studien zur Geschichte des Konzentrations- und Vernichtungslagers Auschwitz., Oswiecim 1999, III. Band Widerstand
- auschwitz information, 67. Ausgabe, Jänner 2005, Institut für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz Die Befreiung von Auschwitz
- Andreas Eder: Maria Stromberger – Zum Gedenken an den "Engel von Auschwitz, P. 11
- Biography of Franz Danimann bildungsverlag-lemberger.at
External links
- Auschwitz: Ruch Oporu - Zorganizowana konspiracja official website of Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
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