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The Auschwitz Combat Group (German: Kampfgruppe Auschwitz, Polish: Grupa Bojowa Oświęcim) was international left-wing resistance organization in Auschwitz concentration camp.

History

Kampfgruppe Auschwitz was founded in 1943. In 1944, together with the Polish Underground State, the Kampfgruppe set up an overall Auschwitz Military Council to coordinate resistance.

Members

The majority of members of the Group were communists, socialists, captured Polish and Soviet partisans, members of anti-Nazi resistance movements, and former members of International Brigades. The members of the Kampfgruppe were from Austria, Poland, France, Germany, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union. Among them were also many Jews.

Leadership

Ernst Burger (nom de guerre Adam) - political leader of Kampfgruppe Auschwitz, member of anti-nazi Austrian Resistance.
Hermann Langbein (nom de guerre Wiktor)
Józef Cyrankiewicz (nom de guerre Rot) responsible for cooperation with resistance groups in another nazi concentration camps
Tadeusz Hołuj (nom de guerre Robert) responsible for cooperation with another resistance groups in Auschwitz
Heinrich Dürmayer - was appointed after Hermann Langbein
Ludwig Soswinski - was appointed after Tadeusz Hołuj
Bruno Baum - was appointed after Ernst Burger

Other notable members

Alfred Klahr - Austrian communist politician and intellectual
Karl Lill
Franz Danimann

References

Hermann Langbein - Keine vollwertigen Menschen maislinger.info
Henryk Świebocki: Die "Kampfgruppe Auschwitz". In: Wacław Długoborski, Franciszek Piper (Hrsg.): Auschwitz 1940–1945. Studien zur Geschichte des Konzentrations- und Vernichtungslagers Auschwitz, Oswiecim 1999, III. Band Widerstand
Henryk Świebocki: Die "Kampfgruppe Auschwitz". In: Wacław Długoborski, Franciszek Piper (Hrsg.): Auschwitz 1940–1945. Studien zur Geschichte des Konzentrations- und Vernichtungslagers Auschwitz., Oswiecim 1999, III. Band Widerstand
Henryk Świebocki: Die "Kampfgruppe Auschwitz". In: Wacław Długoborski, Franciszek Piper (Hrsg.): Auschwitz 1940–1945. Studien zur Geschichte des Konzentrations- und Vernichtungslagers Auschwitz., Oswiecim 1999, III. Band Widerstand
Henryk Świebocki: Die "Kampfgruppe Auschwitz". In: Wacław Długoborski, Franciszek Piper (Hrsg.): Auschwitz 1940–1945. Studien zur Geschichte des Konzentrations- und Vernichtungslagers Auschwitz., Oswiecim 1999, III. Band Widerstand
auschwitz information, 67. Ausgabe, Jänner 2005, Institut für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz Die Befreiung von Auschwitz
Andreas Eder: Maria Stromberger – Zum Gedenken an den "Engel von Auschwitz, P. 11
Biography of Franz Danimann bildungsverlag-lemberger.at

External links

Auschwitz: Ruch Oporu - Zorganizowana konspiracja official website of Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum

The Holocaust

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Camps and ghettos

Concentration

Extermination

Transit

Methods

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Ghettos (list)

Poland	Białystok Kraków Łódź Lublin Lwów Radom Warsaw
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Victims

Jews

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Resistance	Jewish partisans Bielski partisans Ghetto uprisings Warsaw Białystok Częstochowa
Rescue	Aid and Rescue Committee Attack on the twentieth convoy Kastner train Le Chambon-sur-Lignon Danish underground Working Group Żegota

Others

Responsibility

List of major perpetrators of the Holocaust

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Collaborators	Arajs Kommando Lithuanian Security Police Nederlandsche SS Rollkommando Hamann Special Brigades Topf and Sons Trawnikis Ukrainian Auxiliary Police Ypatingasis būrys

Early elements
Aftermath
Remembrance

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