history of the Ukrainian guard company in KL Auschwitz
TitleThe history of the Ukrainian guard company in KL Auschwitz
Author
Call number940.547243094386/0056
Object number09710e
Place of publicationOswiecim, Poland
Year of publication
2015
Physical descriptionpp263-274
MaterialArticle
NotesArticle from the journal 'Auschwitz Studies' 27 pp263-274
Description
In eyewitness accounts of the Nazi extermination camps, mention is often made of the guards originating in the territory of the USSR, mostly Ukrainians who served and also participated in numerous executions of Jews and in the suppression of the Warsaw ghetto uprising. In 1943 a guard company composed of 150 sentries was formed in Birkenau.