Tadeusz Joachimowski
Tadeusz Joachimowski (born June 25, 1908 in Znin ; † 1979 ) was a Polish political prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp . His inmate number was 3720.
Joachimowski was sent from the Tarnów prison to Auschwitz at the end of August 1940 . From March 1943 he headed the prisoners' office in the " Auschwitz Gypsy Camp ". In this function he received the transfer reports about twins who had become victims of human experiments by the concentration camp doctor Josef Mengeles .
In May 1944 Joachimowski passed on the information about the imminent "liquidation" of the "Auschwitz Gypsy Camp" to Josef Steinbach, a fellow prisoner and messenger in the office, and the block elder Paul Wagner. On May 16, 1944, the prisoners were able to prevent the evacuation of the camp and thus the murder of the remaining 6,000 prisoners.
As a prisoner clerk at the "Auschwitz Gypsy Camp", shortly before the actual liquidation in 1944, he succeeded in stealing the two main books from the office and burying them with the help of two other prisoners, Ireneusz Pietrzyk and Henryk Porębski. He later handed over the books that had been unearthed in January 1949 to the Polish authorities. The books then made it possible to identify the names of the prisoners despite considerable damage.
After his liberation, Jochaimowski settled as a merchant in Cracow . In 1968 he testified in Cracow to the “District Commission for the Investigation of the Hitlerist Crimes” about the “Gypsy Camp”.
literature
- Hermann Langbein : People in Auschwitz . English translation with some finds (index entry: Joachimowski, Tadeusz, 187, 188, 193, 194, 198, 200, 226, 409, 425)
- Ernst Klee : Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices, victims and what became of them. A dictionary of persons . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-10-039333-3 .
Web link
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices and victims and what became of them. A dictionary of persons , Frankfurt am Main 2013, pp. 199f.
- ↑ auschwitz.org.pl ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices and victims and what became of them. A dictionary of persons , Frankfurt am Main 2013, pp. 199f.
- ^ Romani Rose: "Don't go into the gas chamber without a fight" The uprising of the Sinti and Roma in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp on May 16, 1944 and its history
- ^ The time of August 12, 2004
- ↑ en.auschwitz.org.pl ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Gedenkbuch p. XXXVII., Danuta Czech, calendar of events in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp 1939–1945, Reinbek 1989, p. 423 and 838.
- ↑ Anita Geiggers / Bernd W. Wette: Gypsies today . Bornheim-Merten 1979, pp. 284-288.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Joachimowski, Tadeusz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish political prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 25, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1979 |