Brzeg
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Brzeg is a town in southwestern Poland with 34,778 inhabitants and the capital of Brzeg County. It is situated in Silesia in the Opole Voivodeship on the left bank of the Oder river.
Brzeg Castle 01
Brzeg, Poland panoramio
Odrzańska Gate in Brzeg
SM Brzeg Ratusz ID 609764
Franciszek Gajowniczek
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Franciszek Gajowniczek was a Polish army sergeant whose life was saved at the Auschwitz concentration camp by Catholic priest Maximilian Kolbe, who volunteered to die in his place.
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…Johannes Brockt (1901–1980), German-Austrian musicologist and conductor Franciszek Gajowniczek (1901–1995), Polish Auschwitz survivor Otto Thorbeck (1912–1976), German lawyer…
Franciszek Gajowniczek, 1941, Auschwitz prisoner 5659
Gajowniczek as a soldier, before 1939
Gajowniczek's grave at the Niepokalanów cemetery, Poland