Auschwitz concentration camp

:For other uses of the term, see Auschwitz (disambiguation).

Well-known inmates

• Hans Frankenthal, Auschwitz Survivor, wrote Verweigerte Rückkehr
• Norbert Barlicki, Polish publicist, lawyer and politician
• W?adys?aw Bartoszewski, Polish foreign minister 1995–2000
• Esther Bejarano
• Tadeusz Borowski, author of This Way to the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
• Józef Chaci?ski, Polish lawyer and politician
• Seweryn Franciszek Czetwerty?ski-?wiatope?k, Polish politician
• Józef Cyrankiewicz, premier of Communist Poland 1947–1952 and 1954–1970, Polish head of state 1970–1972
• Bronis?aw Czech, Polish skier
• W?odzimierz D?browski, Polish lawyer and politician
• Charlotte Delbo, French resistance fighter who later wrote Auschwitz and After
• Xawery Dunikowski, Polish sculptor and artist
• Piotr Feliks, Polish political, social and education activist
• Anne Frank, imprisoned in Auschwitz-Birkenau from September to October 1944; later moved to the concentration camp in Bergen-Belsen where she died of typhus
• Viktor Frankl
• Józef Garli?ski, Polish sculptor and artist
• Marian Gieszczykiewicz, Polish physician and bacteriologist
• Józef Stefan Godlewski, Polish writer
• Etty Hillesum
• Jan Karcz, Polish general
• Imre Kertész, Hungarian Nobel laureate in Literature, stayed in Auschwitz II for three days in the summer of 1944 before being judged fit to work and transferred to Buchenwald
• Stanis?aw K?trzy?ski, Polish historian and diplomate
• Kazimierz Kierzkowski, Polish political and social activist
• Maksymilian Kolbe, Franciscan friar, imprisoned in Auschwitz I; volunteered for starvation in place of another prisoner and was killed in 1941
• Adam Kopyci?ski, Polish conductor and composer
• Adam Koz?owiecki, Polish Cardinal
• Hans Krása, Czech-German composer
• W?odzimierz Kryszewski, Polish historian and encyclopedist
• Stefan Jaracz, Polish actor
• Primo Levi, Italian author, was imprisoned for 10 months in Auschwitz where he had to work for the Buna-Werke. He was freed by the Red Army and later wrote of his experiences
• Stefan Licha?ski, Polish literature critic and writer
• Zygmunt ?empicki, Polish literature theoretician, Germanist, philosopher and culture historian
• Ruth Neray, author of To Auschwitz and Back: My Personal Journey
• W?adys?aw Ogrodzi?ski, Polish historian and writer
• Witold Pilecki, soldier of the Polish Home Army, volunteered to go to Auschwitz, organised resistance in Auschwitz, informed Western Allies about the atrocities, later took part in the Warsaw Uprising.
• Józef Pukowiec, Polish teacher, scoutmaster and resistance activist
• Jan Rubczak, Polish painter and graphic artist
• Roman Franciszek Rybarski, Polish historian, economist and politician
• W?adys?aw ?lebodzi?ski, Polish mathematician
• Józef Siemie?ski, Polish archivist, historian of law
• Vladek Spiegelman, father of cartoonist Art Spiegelman.
• Saint Edith Stein, Catholic nun and philosopher of Jewish ancestry, gassed in Auschwitz II
• Aleksander Stawarz, Polish Army Colonel
• Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, Polish author and resistance fighter
• Ryszard ?wi?tochowski, Polish politician, publicist and engineer
• Tadeusz Ta?ski, Polish automobile engineer
• W?adys?aw Tempka, Polish politician and lawyer
• Konstanty Troczy?ski, Polish literature theoretician and critic
• Simone Veil, French lawyer and politician
• Elie Wiesel, survived Auschwitz III Monowitz and later wrote about his experiences
• Kazimierz Zdziechowski, Polish writer