Iwan Akatowskij was born on 26th March
1915 in Romanowka, which would become part of the USSR when it was founded in
1922. At the start of WWII, the USSR enforced conscription for all men aged 18
to 51, and Iwan Akatowskij, aged 24, joined the Russian army. In June 1941, he
was captured by the Nazis, and sent to Prisoner of War (POW) camps just inside
the German controlled land until being deported to Auschwitz around a month
later. Records show that Soviet Prisoners of War were recorded separately on the
Russisches Kriegsgefangenlager, or
the Soviet Prisoner of War records, were detained in a separate part of
Auschwitz I, and forced to work longer and harder as part of the idea to defeat
the enemy and break morale. Like many other Prisoners of War, Iwan Akatowskij
was murdered at Auschwitz on New Year’s Eve, 1941. Although this was justified
as a Prisoner of War killing, the death of Iwan Akatowskij demonstrates how the
Nazi regime was indiscriminate in using people in Auschwitz to increase the
Nazi’s power.
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