From the Oct. 22, 2012, CBS News.
Antoni Dobrowolski, educator, died Oct. 22 in Debno, Poland.
After Poland was taken over by the Germans in 1939, they banned education of the children beyond four years of elementary school as they considered the Poles inferior and wanted to maintain them as a slave race. However, Polish educators formed an underground effort to continue the education and Mr. Dobrowolski was one of them.
He was arrested and sent to Auschwitz in June 1942, a place he described as being "worse than Dante's hell." He was later transferred to two more prison camps and liberated in 1945. At least 1.1 million died at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, mostly Jews.
He was born Oct. 8, 1904, in Wolborz, Poland.
To Resist and Take the Consequences.
My Cooter's History Blog has become about 80% World War II anyway, so I figured to start a blog specific to it, especially since we're commemorating its 70th anniversary and we are quickly losing this "Greatest Generation." The quote is taken from Pearl Harbor survivor Frank Curre, who was on the USS Tennessee that day. He died Dec. 7, 2011, seventy years to the day. His photo is below at right.
Saturday, October 27, 2012
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