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Jan Karcz (16 October 1892, in Modlica near Kraków – 25 January 1943, in Auschwitz) was a Polish Army colonel, posthumously promoted to the rank of a brigadier general.

During the Second World War he was held and murdered in the Birkenau concentration camp, of Nazi Germany.

Awards

• Virtuti Militari, Silver Medal
• Cross of Valour, four times
• Polonia Restituta, Officer Cross
• Cross of Merit, Golden Cross
• Order of the Star of Romania, Officer Cross
• Latvian Commemorative Medal

References

1. Auschwitz, the Allies and Censorship of the Holocaust, p. 132, at Google Books

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