history of the Ukrainian guard company in KL Auschwitz
TitreThe history of the Ukrainian guard company in KL Auschwitz
Auteur
Call number940.547243094386/0056
N° d'objet09710e
Lieu de publicationOswiecim, Poland
Année de publication
2015
Paginationpp263-274
MatérielArticle
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.