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PEOPLE
1
Colonel Władysław Surmacki; also called Władek
2
Captain Dr. Władysław Dering; also called Władek or Dziunko
3
Cavalry Captain Jerzy de Virion
4
Second Lieutenant Alfred Stössel; also called Fredek
5
Roman Zagner
6
Second Lieutenant Tadeusz Burski; also called Tadek
7
Captain Michał Romanowicz; also called Michał or Captain Michał
8
Captain Ferdynand Trojnicki; also called Fred
9
Corporal Czesław Wąsowski; also called Czesiek
10
Name unknown; called Jurek
11
Colonel Tadeusz Reklewski; also called Colonel R
12
Dr. Edward Nowak
13
Zofia Szczerbowska
14
Sergeant Antoni Woźniak; also called Antek
15
Officer Cadet Witold Szymkowiak; also called Witold
16
Jan Pilecki; also called Pilecki (no relation to author Witold Pilecki)
17
Władysław Kupiec; also called Władek
18
Bolesław Kupiec; also called Bolek
19
Tadeusz Słowiaczek; also called Tadek
20
First Lieutenant Jan Kupiec; also called Janek
21
Tadeusz Pietrzykowski; also called Tadek
22
Antoni Rosa; also called Antek
23
Colonel Aleksander Stawarz
24
Lieutenant Colonel Karol Kumuniecki
25
Stefan Bielecki; also called Czesław III
26
Officer Cadet Platoon Sergeant Stanisław Maringe; also called Stasiek
27
First Lieutenant Jerzy Poraziński; also called Jurek
28
Warrant Officer Szczepan Rzeczkowski; also called Szczepan
29
First Lieutenant Włodzimierz Makaliński; also called Włodek
30
Captain Eugeniusz Triebling; also called Geniek
31
Karol Świętorzecki
32
Leszek Cenzartowicz
33
Stanisław Kocjan
34
Name unknown
35
Officer Cadet Remigiusz Niewiarowski
36
Stanisław Arct
37
Name unknown
38
Major Chmielewski [first name unknown]; also called Sęp II
39
Kazimierz Radwański; also called Kazio (author Witold Pilecki’s nephew)
40
Platoon Sergeant Tadeusz Szydlik
41
Stanisław Stawiszyński
42
Tadeusz Lech
43
Antoni Koszczyński
44
Wincenty Gawron; also called Wicek
45
Stanisław Gutkiewicz
46
Wiktor Śniegucki
47
Name unknown
48
Stanisław Ozimek; also called Stach
49
Jan Dangel; also called Janek
50
Jan Mielcarek; also called “Wernyhora”
51
Does not appear
52
Tadeusz Myszkowski; also called Tadek
53
Józef Chramiec
54
Stefan Gaik
55
Mieczysław Wagner
56
Zbigniew Różak
57
Edward Ciesielski; also called Edek
58
Andrzej Marduła
59
Henryk Bartosiewicz
60
Captain Stanisław Kazuba
61
Second Lieutenant Konstanty Piekarski
62
Colonel Jan Karcz
63
Lieutenant Colonel Jerzy Zalewski
64
Lieutenant Colonel Kazimierz Rawicz; in the camp under the name Jan Hilkner
65
Name unknown
66
Name unknown
67
Second Lieutenant Czesław Darkowski
68
Mieczysław Januszewski
69
Professor Roman Rybarski, former member of Parliament
70
Stanisław Dubois, former member of Parliament
71
Jan Mosdorf, former member of Parliament (per Pilecki)
72
Konstanty Jagiełło, former member of Parliament (per Pilecki)
73
Piotr Kownacki, former member of Parliament
74
Kiliański [first name unknown], former member of Parliament
75
Stefan Niebudek, former member of Parliament
76
First Lieutenant Bernard Świerczyna
77
Zbigniew Ruszczyński
78
Name unknown
79
Name unknown
80
Alfred Włodarczyk
81
Alojz Pohl
82
Major Jan Włodarkiewicz; also called Janek W. (promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in 1941, per Pilecki)
83
Dr. Helena Pawłowska
84
Lieutenant Tomasz Serafiński; also called Tomek (he and his wife together are no. 179)
85
Major Zygmunt Bohdanowski; also called Bohdan (promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in 1941, per Pilecki)
86
Aleksander Paliński
87
Father Zygmunt Ruszczak
88
Captain Tadeusz Dziedzic
89
Karel Stransky
90
Officer Cadet [name unknown]
91
Corporal Stanisław Polkowski
92
Wacław Weszke
93
Name unknown
94
Officer Cadet [name unknown]
95
Name unknown
96
Tadeusz Stulgiński
97
Jan Machnowski; also called Janek
98
First Lieutenant [name unknown]
99
Officer Cadet [name unknown]
100
Name unknown
101
Witold Kosztowny
102
Dr. Rudolf Diem
103
Name unknown
104
Józef Putek, former member of Parliament
105
Edward Berlin
106
Name unknown
107
Name unknown
108
Stanisław Dobrowolski
109
Second Lieutenant [name unknown]
110
Andrzej Makowski-Gąsienica
111
Name unknown
112
Officer Cadet Stanisław Jaster
113
Sokołowski [first name unknown]
114
Captain Tadeusz Paolone
115
First Lieutenant [name unknown]
116
117
First Lieutenant Eugeniusz Zaturski
118
Name unknown
119
Cavalry Sergeant Jan Miksa
120
Dr. Zygmunt Zakrzewsk
i
121
Colonel Juliusz Gilewicz
122
Lieutenant Colonel Teofil Dziama
123
Senior Uhlan Stefan Stępień
124
Captain Tadeusz Chrościcki (father)
125
Tadeusz Lucjan Chrościcki (son)
126
Tadeusz Czechowski
127
Name unknown
128
Name unknown
129
Leon Kukiełka
130
Name unknown
131
Name unknown
132
Name unknown
133
Name unknown
134
Name unknown
135
Name unknown
136
Name unknown
137
Name unknown
138
Name unknown
139
Name unknown
140
Name unknown
141
Name unknown
142
Name unknown; lawyer
143
Name unknown
144
Name unknown
145
Dr. [name unknown]
146
Captain Dr. Henryk Suchnicki
147
Name unknown
148
Name unknown
149
Name unknown
150
Major Edward Gött-Getyński
151
Name unknown
152
Name unknown
153
Name unknown
154
Name unknown
155
Name unknown
156
Second Lieutenant Stanisław Wierzbicki; also called Stasiek
157
Czesław Sikora
158
Zygmunt Ważyński
159
Captain Stanisław Machowski
160
Father Kuc [first name unknown]
161
Bolesław Kuczbara
162
Cavalry Captain Włodzimierz Koliński
163
Second Lieutenant Mieczysław Koliński
164
Second Lieutenant Edmund Zabawski
165
Second Lieutenant Henryk Szklarz
166
Platoon Sergeant [name unknown]
167
Second Lieutenant Aleksander Bugajski; also called Olek
168
First Lieutenant Witold Wierusz
169
Stanisław Barański
170
Jan Redzej; also called Jasiek, Jasio, Jaś, Janek; in the camp as Jan Retko
171
Name unknown
172
Janusz Młynarski
173
Dr. Władysław Fejkiel
174
175
Piotr Mazurkiewicz
176
Mr. and Mrs. Obora
177
Helena Zabawska
178
Leon Wandasiewicz
179
Mr. and Mrs. Tomasz Serafiński (Tomasz Serafiński alone is referred to as no. 84)
180
Andrzej Możdżeń
181
Józef Roman
182
Three ladies [names unknown]
183
Name unknown
184
Name unknown
E.O.
Eleonora Ostrowska (author Witold Pilecki's sister-in-law)
PLACES
I
Does not appear
II
Alwernia
III
The spires of the Benedictine Monastery at Tyniec
IV
Tyniec
V
Unidentified location
VI
Unidentified location
VII
Wieliczka
VIII
The Niepołomnicka Forest
IX
Bochnia1
X
Nowy Wiśnicz
XI
Warsaw
Z
Babice and/or Bochnia1
THE FIRST AUSCHWITZ INMATES
The first Auschwitz inmates were brought in from the Oranienburg concentration camp in May 1940. Pilecki describes them as “30 Germans, or aspiring Germans ... chosen to be our tormentors.” They bore the first Auschwitz inmate numbers: 1 to 30. Of these, in his text Pilecki identifies names with numbers for only eight, as follows:
1
Bronisław Brodniewicz (also written Brodniewitsch); also called Bruno2
2
Otto Küsel; also called Otto
3
Artur Balke
4
Fritz Biessgen; also called “Mateczka” (“Mom”)
5
Hans Bock; also called “Tata” (“Daddy”)
6–17
Not named
18
Konrad Lang
19
Jonny (sic) Lechenich
20–29
Not named
30
Leon Wieczorek (also written Wietschorek); also called Leo2
1Pilecki confuses the letter Z and the number IX, using Z both for the town of Bochnia and an intermediate location which Adam Cyra says is Babice; see Cyra, Ochotnik do Auschwitz: Witold Pilecki (1901–1948) (Oświęcim: Chrześcijańskie Stowarzyszenie Rodzin Oświęcimskich, 2000), p. 398. Cyra also says that IX is Bochnia, op. cit., p. 404. Translator’s note.
2 Pilecki refers to Bruno and Leo, inmate numbers 1 and 30, as “ex-Poles working for the Germans.”
APPENDIX 4
Chronology of Witold Pilecki’s 1945 Auschwitz Report1
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1940
19th of September
• Deliberately walks into a German SS street round-up, Warsaw.
22nd of September
• First day in camp: inmate no. 4859.
September–December
• Daily camp routine.
• Punished: on the wheelbarrows.
• Begins setting up a military organization: the first “five.”
• Doing “physical exercise.” Jews and priests harnessed to rollers.
• Becomes a stove fitter.
• Serious killing starts up again. Weakening, but could not admit to others.
• Gets into the small carpenters shop.
• A few “camp pictures.”
• Silesians.
• Hunger—“the hardest battle in my life.”
• Punishments in Auschwitz.
Christmas 1940
• The first parcels from home—no food allowed.
1941
Early 1941
• First transport of priests from Auschwitz to Dachau.
January
• Sick: in the hospital, overrun by lice. Saved by Dr. Władysław Dering.
February
• A month of rest: more time to set up “fives.”
• SS men Grabner and Palitzsch—paid “by the head” for killing inmates.
• New meaning for “organize.”
• Taking advantage of “friendly” Kapos.
6th of March
• Summoned to the records office over photo.
7th of March
• Summoned to the main office for not writing to family.
March
• Sets up second “five.”
&
nbsp; Spring
• Camp orchestra formed.
• New camp word: “Muselmann.”
• Collective responsibility for escapes. An heroic priest (Father Maksimilian Kolbe).