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Memorial for 1941 Auschwitz mass execution
The Auschwitz cross is a cross in front of the Auschwitz concentration camp, in Oświęcim County, Poland, which was erected to commemorate the spot where
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Award
The Auschwitz Cross (Polish: Krzyż Oświęcimski), instituted on 14 March 1985, was a Polish decoration awarded to honour survivors of Nazi German concentration
Auschwitz_Cross
Nazi concentration camp in Poland (1940–1945)
Auschwitz (German: [ˈaʊ̯ʃvɪts]), also known as Oświęcim (Polish: [ɔˈɕfjɛɲ.t͡ɕim]), was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated
Auschwitz_concentration_camp
Museum and memorial in Oświęcim, Poland
The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum (Polish: Państwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau) is a museum on the site of the Auschwitz concentration camp in Oświęcim
Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
Auschwitz-Birkenau_State_Museum
Cloth emblems; part of the system of identification in Nazi camps
Commons has media related to Category:Auschwitz Cross. Belgian Political Prisoner's Cross "P" on Poland's Auschwitz Cross Service medals awarded to prisoners
Nazi_concentration_camp_badge
Polish military officer (1901–1948)
Germans in order to be voluntarily sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp and infiltrate it. At Auschwitz, he organized a resistance movement that eventually
Witold_Pilecki
Symbol of anti-fascism
"Szymon Kluger's Auschwitz Cross". Archived from the original on 14 July 2025. Instituted by Poland in 1985, the Auschwitz Cross is a decoration awarded
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Polish political prisoner
Polonia Restituta Auschwitz Cross Silver Cross of Merit (1954) www.auschwitz.org. "News / Museum / Auschwitz-Birkenau". en.auschwitz.org. Staff, Times;
Stanisław_Ryniak
Polish scout and liaison office (1921–2021)
Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, the Cross of the Home Army, and the Auschwitz Cross, as well as being recognised Righteous Among the Nations
Urszula_Plenkiewicz
2021 film
The Auschwitz Report, also known as The Auschwitz Escape (Slovak: Správa), is a 2021 historical drama war film directed by Peter Bebjak, who also co-wrote
The_Auschwitz_Report
Nazi SS doctor at Auschwitz (1911–1979)
Soviet front and then at Auschwitz during the Holocaust. He conducted research and experiments on prisoners at the Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration
Josef_Mengele
Nazi coverup of the Holocaust that fooled the Red Cross
delivery of Red Cross supplies and secured permission from the SS that overflows would be sent to other camps, especially Auschwitz concentration camp
Theresienstadt Ghetto and the Red Cross
Theresienstadt_Ghetto_and_the_Red_Cross
Soviet action during World War II
On 27 January 1945, Auschwitz—a Nazi concentration camp and extermination camp in occupied Poland where more than a million people were murdered as part
Liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp
Liberation_of_Auschwitz_concentration_camp
Nazi death camps established to systematically murder
Nazi death camp such as Auschwitz?" The Jews opposed the placement of Christian memorials such as the Auschwitz cross near Auschwitz I where mostly Poles
Extermination_camp
Nazi commandant of Auschwitz (1901–1947)
1947) was a German SS officer, a war criminal, and the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp. After the defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of World
Rudolf_Höss
Jewish author, painter and Holocaust survivor
Wilhelm Hoegner Prize Auschwitz Cross Honorary citizen, City of Neutitschein Upper Bavarian Cultural Prize, 2005 Federal Cross of Merit Bavarian Order
Max_Mannheimer
Bosnian architect (1924–2022)
She was the only Bosnian woman to survive Auschwitz and the only person in the world to survive both Auschwitz and the Siege of Sarajevo. Ferušić was born
Greta_Ferušić
Slovak holocaust survivor (1922–2007)
26 August 1922 – 4 June 2007) was a Slovak Holocaust survivor. At the Auschwitz concentration camp, she had a romantic relationship with the Austrian
Helena_Citrónová
Nazi photography unit
the images in bags to the Polish Red Cross in Cracow, and in 1947 they were added to the archives of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. Höcker Album
Auschwitz_Erkennungsdienst
Polish economist and communist politician (1914-1992)
Restituta (19 August 1946) Gold Cross of Merit (11 May 1946) Medal for Warsaw 1939–1945 (17 January 1946) Auschwitz Cross (1985) Bronze Medal of Merit for
Jerzy_Albrecht
Censorship in Auschwitz concentration camp (German: Konzentrationslager Auschwitz; also K.L. Auschwitz) followed the broader pattern of political and cultural
Censorship_in_Auschwitz
1944 prisoner escape from Auschwitz concentration camp
movement and attempted to smuggle a report on Auschwitz to the International Committee of the Red Cross in Switzerland. After the war he remained in Czechoslovakia
Siegfried Lederer's escape from Auschwitz
Siegfried_Lederer's_escape_from_Auschwitz
Polish educator and community organiser
Kawalerski Orderu Odrodzenia Polski) Golden Cross of Merit (Złoty Krzyż Zasługi) Auschwitz Cross (Krzyż Oświęcimski) Cross of Merit for the ZHP (Krzyż za Zasługi
Władysław_Dworaczek
German war criminal and Holocaust perpetrator (1923–1945)
camp guard at Ravensbrück, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, and Bergen-Belsen. She has been widely known as the "Hyena of Auschwitz" and the "Beast of Belsen" for
Irma_Grese
Polish-Paraguayan businessman (1923–2019)
Wyborcza that Jan Kobylański falsified documents of the Red Cross, that he was a prisoner at Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Gusen, Gross Rosen, and Dachau concentration
Jan_Kobylański
German Nazi physician (1909–1945)
– 20 September 1945) was the chief SS doctor (SS-Standortarzt) at the Auschwitz concentration camp from September 1942 to January 1945. Thus, Wirths had
Eduard_Wirths
Slovak-Jewish Auschwitz escapee, Canadian biochemist (1924–2006)
Slovak-Jewish biochemist who, as a teenager in 1942, was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. He escaped from the camp
Rudolf_Vrba
German architect, engineer and SS-Sturmbannführer
served at Auschwitz as chief of the Central Construction Office of the Waffen-SS. While there he was chief of construction of the Auschwitz II-Birkenau
Karl_Bischoff
of the Order of Virtuti Militari (December 19, 1945) Partisan Cross (1946) Auschwitz Cross (1985) Medal for Warsaw 1939–1945 (January 17, 1946) Medal "For
Janusz_Zarzycki
Last Jewish resident of Oświęcim
openly Jewish person to live in the town of Oświęcim, Poland, (German: Auschwitz) from 1962 until his death in 2000. Although Oświęcim had a Jewish community
Shimson_Kleuger
Nazi genocide". The conflict over the Auschwitz cross near Auschwitz I typifies these controversies, as Auschwitz is also the site of the martyrdom (according
Conversion of Jews to Catholicism during the Holocaust
Conversion_of_Jews_to_Catholicism_during_the_Holocaust
Polish writer and school teacher (1910-2007)
Stanisław Dobosiewicz (1910–2007) was a Polish writer and school teacher. He is best known as the author of a monumental monograph of the Gusen part of
Stanisław_Dobosiewicz
Symbol
العسكري) logo of the Qassam Brigades in Palestine Auschwitz Cross (Polish WWII medal) Political Prisoner's Cross 1940–1945 (Belgian WWII medal) Wikimedia Commons
Red_triangle
Meritorious Maritime Worker, and the Golden Cross of Merit. He was posthumously awarded the Auschwitz Cross. A genus, Romanaria, and a subspecies of moth
Roman_Wojtusiak
to freedom after they were moved from Auschwitz to Ravensbrück and ultimately turned over to the Swedish Red Cross, and is somewhat more linear. Delbo's
Auschwitz_and_After
Polish politician (1911–1989)
1st Class (1951) Order of the Builders of People's Poland (1954) Auschwitz Cross (1985) Medal of the 30th Anniversary of People's Poland Medal of the
Józef_Cyrankiewicz
Polish historian and museum director
historian, medievalist and social activist. He has served as Director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum since 2006. From 2000 to 2010, he was the Director
Piotr_Cywiński
Swiss physician (d. 1997)
Later on September 1944 Rossel visited Auschwitz concentration camp and spoke to the commandant of Auschwitz I. In 1979, he was interviewed by Claude
Maurice_Rossel
Polish self-image as a martyr nation
Crosses of Auschwitz: Nationalism and Religion in Post-Communist Poland Sabrina P. Ramet, Catholic Historical Review, July 2007. Crosses of Auschwitz:
Christ_of_Europe
Polish Catholic social worker who escaped from Auschwitz
Polish Catholic social worker, best known as one of the few inmates of the Auschwitz concentration camp who managed to escape successfully. With the help of
Jerzy Bielecki (Auschwitz survivor)
Jerzy_Bielecki_(Auschwitz_survivor)
Eyewitness accounts of concentration camp
The Auschwitz Protocols, also known as the Auschwitz Reports, and originally published as The Extermination Camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau, is a collection
Auschwitz_Protocols
Account of Auschwitz killings
the Auschwitz Protocols, otherwise known as the Auschwitz Report or the Auschwitz notebook. It is a 33-page eye-witness account of the Auschwitz concentration
Vrba–Wetzler_report
Memorial in Warsaw, Poland
media related to Cross in front of Presidential Palace in Warsaw. Auschwitz cross Sejm cross Leszczynski, Adam (6 April 2011). "A very Polish protest party"
Presidential_Palace_cross
(1996). Rudolf Höß: Kommandant in Auschwitz, Autobiographische Aufzeichnungen [Rudolf Höss: Commandant in Auschwitz, Autobiographical Notes] (in German)
Female guards in Nazi concentration camps
Female_guards_in_Nazi_concentration_camps
Former German chemicals conglomerate
concentration camps, including 30,000 from Auschwitz, and was involved in medical experiments on inmates at both Auschwitz and Mauthausen. Degesch, one of its
IG_Farben
Sinti holocaust survivor (born 1935)
Else Baker (born 18 December 1935 in Hamburg) is a survivor of the Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp. Else Baker, née Else Schmidt, was adopted
Else_Baker
spent as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp. At the age of 19, Paczyński was captured by the Nazis when trying to cross into Slovakia to join Polish
Józef_Paczyński
German-born musician and Holocaust survivor (born 1925)
German-British cellist, and a surviving member of the Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz. Wallfisch co-founded the English Chamber Orchestra and she has been honoured
Anita_Lasker-Wallfisch
Abandoned development proposal
Auschwitz Supermarket was the name given to a development plan proposed to be built across the street from the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. For over
Auschwitz_Supermarket
Budapest in order to supervise the deportation of the country's Jews to the Auschwitz concentration camp in occupied Poland. Between 15 May and 9 July 1944
The_Holocaust_in_Hungary
This is a list of notable victims and survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp; that is, victims and survivors about whom a significant amount of
List of victims and survivors of Auschwitz
List_of_victims_and_survivors_of_Auschwitz
Polish historian and journalist (1926–2025)
www.auschwitz.org. "Members of the IAC (4th Term of Office) / The International Auschwitz Council / Museum / Auschwitz-Birkenau". www.auschwitz.org.
Marian_Turski
Action Cross) Krzyż Bitwy pod Lenino (Battle of Lenino Cross) Krzyż Oświęcimski (Auschwitz Cross) Medal "Za udział w wojnie obronnej 1939" (Medal for the
List of military awards and decorations of World War II
List_of_military_awards_and_decorations_of_World_War_II
One of the three main camps in the Auschwitz concentration camp system
Monowitz (also known as Monowitz-Buna, Buna and Auschwitz III) was a Nazi concentration camp and labor camp (Arbeitslager) run by Nazi Germany in occupied
Monowitz_concentration_camp
Immigration detention facility in Florida, US
the facility to Nazi concentration camps, referring to it as "Alligator Auschwitz" while others situate it within American concentration camps, including
Alligator_Alcatraz
Concentration camp overseer
Lichtenburg concentration camp, the Ravensbrück concentration camp and the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination/concentration camp for several years during the
Emma_Zimmer
Polish historian (1924–2007)
Auschwitz Cross (1988) Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2003) Honorary Citizen of Gorlice "Zmarł były więzień Auschwitz
Marian_Zgórniak
Nazi concentration camp guard (1902–1948)
camp guard. In March 1942, Brandl was among the SS women assigned to Auschwitz I concentration camp. Her duties included watching over women in the sorting
Therese_Brandl
Pesticide notorious for its use during the Holocaust
murder approximately 1.1 million people in gas chambers installed at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Majdanek, and other extermination camps. Hydrogen cyanide, a
Zyklon_B
Humanitarian non-governmental organization
January 2005, the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the ICRC stated: Auschwitz also represents the greatest failure in the history of the
International Committee of the Red Cross
International_Committee_of_the_Red_Cross
The first mass transport of prisoners by Nazi Germany to Auschwitz Concentration Camp was organized in occupied Poland on 14 June 1940 during World War
First mass transport to Auschwitz concentration camp
First_mass_transport_to_Auschwitz_concentration_camp
German concentration camp survivor (1924–2021)
last survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp. She survived because she was a player in the Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz. She was active in various
Esther_Bejarano
Section of Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp
Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia, who were held in the BIIb section of the Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp from 8 September 1943 to 12 July 1944.
Theresienstadt_family_camp
Theological and philosophical debate
entering into human pain and suffering on the cross and on the gallows of Auschwitz. Moltmann's theology of the cross was later developed into liberation theologies
Holocaust_theology
International humanitarian movement
The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is a humanitarian movement with approximately 16 million volunteers, members, and staff worldwide
International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
International_Red_Cross_and_Red_Crescent_Movement
Karcz (16 October 1892, in Modlica near Kraków – 25 January 1943, in Auschwitz) was a Polish Army colonel, posthumously promoted to the rank of a brigadier
Jan_Karcz
French cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
departure of the Carmelite nuns who built a convent in Auschwitz concentration camp (see Auschwitz cross). He represented Pope John Paul II in January 2005
Jean-Marie_Lustiger
Jewish representative organization
the key moments of his presidency surrounded the controversy of the Auschwitz cross, a moment that led to one of the largest crises in Judeo-Christian
Coordinating Committee of Jewish Organizations in Belgium
Coordinating_Committee_of_Jewish_Organizations_in_Belgium
Austrian Holocaust perpetrator (1912–1948)
1945, she served as the Schutzhaftlagerführerin (camp leader) at the Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp. She also held positions at the Lichtenburg
Maria_Mandl
imprisoned in Pawiak prison. In October of the same year, he was sent to Auschwitz concentration camp. In January 1945 he was evacuated to Flossenbürg concentration
Ignacy_Oziewicz
they were received; 12 crosses (krzyż), 3 medals (medal) and 6 stars (gwiazda) in specific order of precedence; other crosses and awards in order they
Orders, decorations, and medals of Poland
Orders,_decorations,_and_medals_of_Poland
SS-Hauptscharführer and member of staff at Auschwitz (1912–1972)
was awarded the War Merit Cross Second Class with Swords. Nebbe was tried by the Supreme National Tribunal at the Auschwitz trial in Kraków for his role
Detlef_Nebbe
German nun and philosopher (1891–1942)
a Discalced Carmelite nun. She was murdered in the gas chamber at the Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp on 9 August 1942, and is canonized as a
Edith_Stein
Polish Holocaust survivor (1929–2021)
survivor. He was a Łódź Ghetto and Auschwitz Concentration Camp inmate. He was president of the International Auschwitz Committee. Kent died in New York
Roman_Kent
Belgian Roman Catholic Church cardinal
would move out. (But they remained until 1993, and left behind the Auschwitz cross.) Between 1990 and 1999, Danneels was the international president of
Godfried_Danneels
British POW who saved over 400 Jews from Auschwitz
known as the "Count of Auschwitz", was a British soldier captured during the Second World War who rescued Jews from Auschwitz and claimed he had smuggled
Charles_Coward
German SS officer and war criminal (1906–1962)
Hungary's 725,000 Jews had been deported. Most of the victims were sent to Auschwitz concentration camp, where about 75 per cent were murdered upon arrival
Adolf_Eichmann
Polish cryptographer, mathematician (1916 - 1996)
research on acoustics, cryptography Awards Order of Polonia Restituta Auschwitz Cross Scientific career Fields Mathematics acoustics Institutions Adam Mickiewicz
Halina_Ryffert
und Auschwitz (“Edith Stein - Message of the Cross and Auschwitz”, Edith-Stein-Society, Germany). 2003: editor of the book Dialog u progu Auschwitz (“Dialogue
Manfred_Deselaers
German-Jewish youth leader
occupation of Czechoslovakia in Prague, Theresienstadt concentration camp, and Auschwitz. Hirsch was the deputy supervisor of children at Theresienstadt and the
Fredy_Hirsch
Dutch historian
Waterloo and a Holocaust scholar. One of the world's leading experts on Auschwitz, he regularly speaks on Holocaust related topics, through which he has
Robert_Jan_van_Pelt
German writer and activist (1927–2001)
April 1927–4 July 2001), was a Holocaust survivor, author of A Gypsy in Auschwitz (1999), activist, and founder of Sinti Union of Berlin and Organization
Otto Rosenberg (writer and activist)
Otto_Rosenberg_(writer_and_activist)
Political party in Poland
Federation. In 1998, Janosz was involved in the Auschwitz cross controversy, where he protected the crosses from removal by authorities together with Kazimierz
Union_of_War_Veterans
Silesian Insurgent Cross, the Partisan Cross, the Rodło, the Grunwald Swords and the symbol of the concentration camps—the Auschwitz Cross. Originally, the
Freedom_Monument_(Bytom)
German chemist and Nazi war criminal (1894-1969)
head of production at the Bunawerke facility at Monowitz, part of the Auschwitz complex of camps. The extensive works were to have produced Buna rubber
Heinrich_Bütefisch
Belgian Holocaust survivor (born 1928)
Belgium, and was imprisoned at the Mechelen transit camp in Belgium, Auschwitz concentration camp in occupied Poland, and the Bergen-Belsen concentration
Lilly_Appelbaum_Malnik
German SS officer (1906–1948)
concentration camp and the deputy commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp. One of the most important criminals at Auschwitz, Aumeier was extradited to Poland, where
Hans_Aumeier
Polish daily newspaper
all-powerful Jewish lobby". During the debate over the Auschwitz cross, Nasz Dziennik defended the cross, publishing articles on the matter that ranged from
Nasz_Dziennik
Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor (1923–2024)
along with her mother, younger brother and three sisters were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Ebert's mother Nina, younger brother Bela, and younger sister
Lily_Ebert
Polish Franciscan friar and saint (1894–1941)
place of a man named Franciszek Gajowniczek in the German death camp of Auschwitz, located in German-occupied Poland during World War II. He had been active
Maximilian_Kolbe
Deportation transport in 1943 with women resistants from Compiègne to Auschwitz
the 31000s was a deportation convoy that left Romainville, France, for Auschwitz Concentration Camp on 24 January 1943. The women who were transported
Convoi_des_31000
1942 Holocaust transport
The first mass transport of Jews to Auschwitz concentration camp departed from Poprad transit camp in the Slovak Republic on 25 March 1942 and arrived
First mass transport of Jews to Auschwitz concentration camp
First_mass_transport_of_Jews_to_Auschwitz_concentration_camp
French lawyer (1920–2020)
International Committee of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. He helped to dissolve the dispute over the Auschwitz cross. After his retired, Klein gave
Théo_Klein
Austrian nurse (1898–1957)
that she ever was. Stromberger arrived at Auschwitz on 1 October 1942, in the capacity of a German Red Cross nurse. Robert Mulka, a Hauptsturmführer (a
Maria_Stromberger
German Nazi war criminal (1907–1946)
(War Merit Cross), in September 1943. He was further promoted camp commandant in April 1944 at Arbeitslager Laurahütte, a subcamp of Auschwitz in Siemianowice
Walter_Quakernack
Polish-born Holocaust survivor and author (born 1926)
December 1926) is a Polish-British Holocaust survivor. She was sent to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in 1943 at the age of 16, where she survived for two
Kitty_Hart-Moxon
Polish boxer (1925–2007)
November 3, 2007), also known as Herschel Haft, was a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp where he boxed fellow inmates to survive, the losers
Harry_Haft
German Nazi politician
Ganzenmüller directly in order to ensure the pending “removal of Jews” to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Most of the victims were carried to their deaths by
Albert_Ganzenmüller
Nazi mass murderer (1915–1946)
Gleiwitz I. According to Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss, he and Moll were both decorated by Adolf Hitler with the War Merit Cross, First Class with Swords
Otto_Moll
Czech artist and Holocaust survivor (b. 1929)
deported to Terezín. Fewer than 100 of the Terezín children deported to Auschwitz survived. Using her gift for painting and drawing, while at Terezín, Helga
Helga_Hošková-Weissová
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