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history of the Ukrainian guard company in KL Auschwitz
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]The history of the Ukrainian guard company in KL Auschwitz
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
Call number940.547243094386/0056
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]09710e
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]Oswiecim, Poland
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oswiecim
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
2015
[nb-NO]Pagination[nb-NO]pp263-274
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Article
NotesArticle from the journal 'Auschwitz Studies' 27 pp263-274
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
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.