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The Holocaust: Kazimierz Piechowski and three others, dressed as members of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, steal an SS staff car and escape from the Auschwitz concentration camp.
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The Holocaust
Genocide of European Jews by Nazi Germany
The Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. From 1941 to 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population.…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Kazimierz Piechowski
Kociewian engineer, political prisoner, and Holocaust survivor (1919–2017)
Kazimierz Piechowski was a Polish engineer, and boy scout during the Second Polish Republic, and political prisoner of the Nazis held at Auschwitz concentration camp. He was a soldier of the Polish Home Army, and again became a political prisoner under the post-war communist…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
SS-Totenkopfverbände
Major branch of the SS (1936–1945)
SS-Totenkopfverbände was a major branch of the Nazi Party's paramilitary Schutzstaffel (SS) organisation. It was responsible for administering the concentration camps and extermination camps of Nazi Germany, among similar duties. It was both the successor and expanded…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Schutzstaffel
Nazi paramilitary organisation (1925–1945)
The Schutzstaffel was a major paramilitary organisation under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Auschwitz concentration camp
Nazi concentration camp in Poland (1940–1945)
Auschwitz, also known as Oświęcim, was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II and the Holocaust. It consisted of Auschwitz I, the main camp (Stammlager) in Oświęcim; Auschwitz II-Birkenau, a…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)