history of the Ukrainian guard company in KL Auschwitz
TitelThe history of the Ukrainian guard company in KL Auschwitz
Forfatter
Call number940.547243094386/0056
Objektnummer09710e
UdgivelsesstedOswiecim, Poland
Udgivelsesår
2015
Pagineringpp263-274
MaterialeArticle
NoterArticle from the journal 'Auschwitz Studies' 27 pp263-274
Beskrivelse
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.