Born on 30th January 1915, Józef Hanzel
worked as a clerk before the outbreak of World War Two. It is unclear as to
when he arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau, but it is clear that he was taken to the
concentration camp as a political prisoner. Records from the Auschwitz database
demonstrate how Józef Hanzel was sentenced to death by the Police Court-Martial
of the Kattowitz, Sonderkommando Gestapo. This branch of the Gestapo worked in
the Birkenau extermination camp, and worked to ‘remove’ the opposition to the
Nazi party. Jósef Hanzel was murdered by firing squad on 2nd June 1943.
No comments:
Post a Comment