Auschwitz Cross

Polish Badge of Honor Krzyż Oświęcimski (1985 to 1999)

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The Auschwitz Cross ( Krzyż Oświęcimski ) is a Polish badge of honor with which former prisoners of the concentration camps, including non-Poles and those who have already died, were honored from March 14, 1985 to 1999 (or in February 2004 Greta Ferusic ). The order consists of a silver cross on which barbed wire runs. In its center is the red triangle with the letter P, as it was worn by Polish prisoners (or “protective prisoners” in National Socialist terminology) on their clothes in the concentration camps . The years 1939 and 1945 are embossed on it, on the reverse there is the inscription “PRL / WIĘŹNIOM / HITLEROWSKICH / OBOZÓW KONCENTRACYJNYCH” (“The People's Republic of Poland to prisoners of the Hitler concentration camps”).

Web links

• The Auschwitz Cross in the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Edward Mroczek)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Zvi Gitelman: American Jewish Yearbook 2004 (pdf) AJC. Retrieved January 17, 2015.