{"id":3810,"date":"2012-10-23T22:07:30","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T22:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/?p=3810"},"modified":"2012-10-23T22:07:30","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T22:07:30","slug":"oldest-polish-survivor-of-auschwitz-dies-at-108","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/oldest-polish-survivor-of-auschwitz-dies-at-108\/","title":{"rendered":"Oldest Polish survivor of Auschwitz dies at 108"},"content":{"rendered":"

Antoni Dobrowolski<\/strong>, who was the oldest Polish survivor of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz<\/strong>, died at the age of 108 on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Dobrowolski, a former teacher, was arrested in the southern Polish city of Radom<\/strong> on June 6 1942, and brought to the Auschwitz death camp immediately afterwards. He was moved on to Gross-Rosen camp<\/strong> and finally to Sachsenhausen<\/strong>, where he was freed when the war ended.<\/p>\n

Dobrowolski, who was not Jewish, was detained because he belonged to a forbidden teachers’ organization that flouted a Nazi ban by teaching primary school students about Polish history.<\/p>\n

When the war ended, Dobrowolski moved to the small city of D\u0119bno<\/strong>, where he was for many years headmaster of a local high school.<\/p>\n

During Nazi Germany’s World War Two occupation of Poland, the Nazis killed some 1.5 million people in Auschwitz, located near the Polish village O\u015bwi\u0119cim<\/strong>. Most those killed were Jewish.<\/p>\n

The German occupation of Poland resulted in the deaths of almost 20 percent of the population and over 90 percent of the country’s Jewish minority.<\/p>\n

Do nast<\/strong>\u0119pnego razu… <\/strong>(Till next time…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Antoni Dobrowolski, who was the oldest Polish survivor of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz, died at the age of 108 on Sunday. Dobrowolski, a former teacher, was arrested in the southern Polish city of Radom on June 6 1942, and brought to the Auschwitz death camp immediately afterwards. He was moved on to Gross-Rosen camp…<\/p>\n

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