SS Lieutenant Rudolf Hoess
Rudolf Hoess was a Lieutenant in the Holocaust. He was born November 25, 1900 and lived in Baden-Baden, a town in southwest Germany. He trained for priesthood until he joined the German Army in 1916. He was interested in the Nazis and joined the SS in 1933. He was appointed Commander of Auschwitz, a concentration camp. He made the camp into an extermination camp with gas chambers and crematoriums. He wrote a poem of the “Beauty of Auschwitz”. When the war was over He went into hiding as Franz Lang. He was captured and was Hanged on April 16. 1947. He leaves behind his wife and children.
Ella Gartner
Ella Gartner was a young woman who died with great pride and honor. She was a part of the revolt that took place in Auschwitz. She worked in Weichsel-Union-Metallwerke, a factory close to Auschwitz. She would sneak gunpowder to the Sonderkommando( special command unit) by putting it in her clothes. The Sonderkommando were a group of people that were selected to work at Auschwitz by doing gruesome tasks. When the revolt happened the outcome was unimaginable. The prisoners blew up a gas chamber and it’s adjacent crematorium. Ella along with three other women involved in the revolt were publicly hanged on January 6, 1945
Jankiel Wiernik
Jankiel Wiernik was a man that lead a long and fulfilled life. He wrote a book about his experience in the Treblinka Uprising on August 2, 1943. The book contained a lot of information on the Uprising and his life. He was a part of the “Organising Committee” which consisted of the late Dr. Julian Chorazycki, the late Marceli Galewski, and the late Zelo Bloch. The “Organising Committee” was a group of people in Treblinka who planned an uprising. He was the only one out of the “Organising Committee” to make it out of the manhunt alive. He escaped to a safe house and wrote his memoir. He died in Israel in 1972.