Józef Bodek, born in 1922 provides one of
the most significant stories in researching the Holocaust and the individuals
of Auschwitz. He arrived at the concentration camp on 28th January 1943, and
after some time was transferred to Mauthausen, probably due to the demand of
workers to develop the camp. On 5th May 1945, over two years after Józef Bodek
arrived at Auschwitz, the concentration camp was liberated by American troops.
Nearly 20 years later, Józef Bodek provided a witness testimony in the
Frankfurt process, which was a trial done by the Federal Republic of Germany to
charge SS personal. Altogether, 789 SS personal who served at Auschwitz were
tried, and 750 given sentences. This process was one of the most significant in
German history as it used the German definition of crimes against humanity, and
not that laid out in the Human Rights bill. Józef Bodek, one of the 210
witnesses that testified in the Frankfurt process survived more than two years
in the Nazi concentration camps, which then allowed him to seek the justice
that so many people involved in the Holocaust desired.
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