Kazimierz Piechowski
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Kazimierz Piechowski was a Polish engineer, and boy scout during the Second Polish Republic, and political prisoner of the Nazis held at Auschwitz concentration camp. He was a soldier of the Polish Ho
A booking photograph of Piechowski at Auschwitz concentration camp
Railway bridge over the Vistula river; Piechowski was in a forced work gang clearing the rubble
Main gate to Auschwitz I
Steyr 220, similar to car used in the escape
Mala Zimetbaum
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Malka Zimetbaum, also known as "Mala" Zimetbaum or "Mala the Belgian", was a Belgian woman of Polish Jewish descent, known for her escape from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. She is also re
Kazimierz Piechowski
…was only the second transport after the initial one from Tarnów. Among this Tarnów group was another Pole who would escape in an SS officer's uniform: Edward Galinski. Galinski's escape was short-lived. Piechowski received inmate number 918. He was in the Leichenkommando and assigned to bringing corpses to the…
Mala Zimetbaum
Edward "Edek" Galiński