{"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":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Antoni Dobrowolski<\/strong>, who was the oldest Polish survivor of the Nazi death camp <strong>Auschwitz<\/strong>, died at the age of 108 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2012\/10\/images-26.jpeg\" aria-label=\"Images 26\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3811\"  alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2012\/10\/images-26.jpeg\"><\/a>Dobrowolski, a former teacher, was arrested in the southern Polish city of <strong>Radom<\/strong> on June 6 1942, and brought to the Auschwitz death camp immediately afterwards. He was moved on to <strong>Gross-Rosen camp<\/strong> and finally to <strong>Sachsenhausen<\/strong>, where he was freed when the war ended.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Dobrowolski, who was not Jewish, was detained because he belonged to a forbidden teachers&#8217; organization that flouted a Nazi ban by teaching primary school students about Polish history.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">When the war ended, Dobrowolski moved to the small city of <strong>D\u0119bno<\/strong>, where he was for many years headmaster of a local high school.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">During Nazi Germany&#8217;s World War Two occupation of Poland, the Nazis killed some 1.5 million people in Auschwitz, located near the Polish village <strong>O\u015bwi\u0119cim<\/strong>. Most those killed were Jewish.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The German occupation of Poland resulted in the deaths of almost 20 percent of the population and over 90 percent of the country&#8217;s Jewish minority.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do nast<\/strong><strong>\u0119pnego razu&#8230; <\/strong>(Till next time&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/oldest-polish-survivor-of-auschwitz-dies-at-108\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[10166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3810","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-current-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3810"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3813,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3810\/revisions\/3813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}