history of the Ukrainian guard company in KL Auschwitz
TitelThe history of the Ukrainian guard company in KL Auschwitz
Auteur
Call number940.547243094386/0056
Objectnummer09710e
Plaats van uitgaveOswiecim, Poland
Jaar van uitgave
2015
Pagina'spp263-274
MateriaalArtikel
NotesArticle from the journal 'Auschwitz Studies' 27 pp263-274
Beschrijving
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.