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25 January 1943 | The camp compound leader, Hans Aumeier, Rapportführer Gerhard Palitzsch, the Head of the Political Department Maximilian Grabner, and functionaries of the Political Department who were responsible for the individual cases, carried out a selection in the bunkers of Block 11 in Auschwitz I camp.
During the selection, three prisoners were discharged to the camp, one prisoner was assigned to the Penal Company, and 53 prisoners who were put in the bunkers between October 29, 1942 and January 23, 1943 were to be shot.
The prisoners to be shot were under suspicion of conducting illegal activities directed against the SS in the camp or of having prepared escapes. Many were also considered eyewitnesses to the SS crimes.
▶ Watch a short video about Block 11 and its yard where shooting executions were held: t.co/VBgDxkWLMa
Among the selected were NCOs, officers, and higher officers, as well as members of the intelligentsia. The prisoners who were executed on that day included: Colonel Edward Gött-Getyński, Colonel Jan Karcz, Colonel Karol Kumuniecki, Cavalry Captain Włodzimierz Koliński, Wiktor Koliński, Mieczysław Grabowiecki, Karol Korotyński, Henryk Suligórski, Marian Studencki, Tadeusz Radwański, Heliodor Zaleśny, Zbigniew Ruszczyński, Henryk Stirer, Kazimierz Superson, Bolesław Borczyk and Eugeniusz Obojski, who prior to being delivered to the bunker had worked as a corpse bearer and had been present at almost all executions.
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