First Auschwitz inmate dies

xcalibur · Post by **xcalibur** » 27 Feb 2004 17:50

A bit of interesting information on the first prisoners at Auschwitz:

http://www.ukphilately.org.uk/nps/artic ... chwitz.htm

Luca · Post by **Luca** » 27 Feb 2004 19:01

Here the pic of the 31th inmate in subject http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=15735
In the first message of this page is claim that in Litomerice was mines.
Im 40 Km to Litomerice now and, for the moment, appear that never exist mines in Litomerice, but i stay here a week and i will search more.
Luca

Ps for Mills = I have home some names of the first 30 inmates, i will post it next week.
Ps for Xcalibur = Thank You for the link, the postal history is my hobby, maybe i will add some notes when i will go home.

NB =Litomierzyce is poland name of Litomerice

michael mills · Post by **michael mills** » 29 Feb 2004 03:04

In my original post on this thread, I wrote:

If so, surely the distinction of being the first prisoner of Auschwitz should go to the person who received number 1, one of the 30 German criminal prisoners. He is named in the "Auschwitz Chronicle", but I have forgotten it. I have a vague feeling that he was Bruno something.

I now see from the philatelic link provided by xcalibur that the name of the inmate with number 1 was Bruno Brodniewicz.

So I got it half right. How gratifying to know that my memory is not completely failing me!

From the same link I see that inmate no 30, also one of the first 30 criminal prisoners sent to Auschwitz to be Kapos, was Leon Wieczorek. Funny how those nasty "German" criminals have Polish names.

Ogorek · Post by **Ogorek** » 29 Feb 2004 18:00

Funny how those nasty "German" criminals have Polish names.

Yes... take a look at any roster of a German military unit and I will agree with you.....

Luca · Post by **Luca** » 29 Feb 2004 20:00

Luca wrote:In the first message of this page is claim that in Litomerice was mines.
Im 40 Km to Litomerice now and, for the moment, appear that never exist mines in Litomerice, but i stay here a week and i will search more

Im waiting tomorrow for phone to the director of the Gelogic Museum in Litomerice, but i think i ve enough information now.
A personal contact of me, young during the wartime but Political Commissar of the Milice in the immediate post war, confirm me that never exist mines in Litomerice in the 1945.
He inform me that 6 Km to Litomerice start during the German occupation, in the town of Radobil, a work for create a underground production down a little mountain concern aircraft items, and some prisoners was involved in this work, so appear sure that a ...mine...work was make from some inmates in Litomerice.
He also confirm me that de 9 May 45 is much probable the exact date for Litomerice.
I want also say that im not home now, but for the poor that i can remember now, my sources claim that in Litomerice exist only a Gefagnis, so maybe, this message can be a little bit interessant.
Luca

ChristopherPerrien · Post by **ChristopherPerrien** » 29 Feb 2004 22:53

I think that the people who make so much fuss about the death of a former Auschwitz inmate are motivated primarily by a desire to concentrate on only one example of "hell on earth", namely Auschwitz, in order to conceal all the scores of other "hells on earth" that were perpetrated by an ideology which they espouse or for which they feel a residual sympathy because it had its origin in an ethnic group to which they belong or with which they have an affinity.

Classic, Herr Mills.

What seems strange to me is that these first prisoners were "ethnic" Poles and not Jews so what is the point for these interests you note to make light of the fact that Jews were not the first or the only victims of this "Hell on Earth?" This goes against the propaganda of making Auswitz a solely "Jewish institution and religion".

Another point that pops up is that at least 2 of the first 100 prisioners obviously survived what has been the "definitive" synonym for "death camp" Auschwitz. I would think they would have the worst survival rate, because of being there the longest , so again the point of these being "trustee prisioners" is raised by this.

Luca · Post by **Luca** » 06 Mar 2004 21:21

michael mills wrote:I now see from the philatelic link provided by xcalibur that the name of the inmate with number 1 was Bruno Brodniewicz.

So I got it half right. How gratifying to know that my memory is not completely failing me!

From the same link I see that inmate no 30, also one of the first 30 criminal prisoners sent to Auschwitz to be Kapos, was Leon Wieczorek. Funny how those nasty "German" criminals have Polish names.

......"The first prisoners to arrive in Auschwitz were so-called Berufsverbbrecher (BVer) trasferred from KZ-Sachsenhausen. They arrived on 20 May 1940 and all of them became Funktionshaftlinge. prisoner N. 1 was Lageraltester Bruno Brodniewitsch and N. 2 was Arbeitsdienstfuhrer Otto Kussel. To clear the buildings and camp in general, the Mayor of Oswiecim ordered 300 local jews into forced labor for the Germans.
By mid June 1940 the camp was ready for the first Polish political prisoners, and 120 SS guards along with the aforementioned 30 Funktionshaftlinge were waiting for them. On 15 June 1940, 738 prisoners from Tarnow arrived in Auschwitz, shortly after this time Poles from Krakow and Sosnowiec arrived at this new camp.".....
Looking this note seem that if we wont consider Brodniewitsch as the first inmate, we have to consider the 300 jews forced in the labor for clear the camp, or not?
In any case is maybe much more interessant some informations that i have found from some my personal Litomerice friends.
Im very tired now and i post it tomorrow.
Luca

F.N. · Post by **F.N.** » 06 Mar 2004 23:45

Being in auschwitz from the beginning to the end must have been hell...

Raistlin · Post by **Raistlin** » 09 Mar 2004 03:00

Hi All,

Here's a photo of the 88th prisoner at Auschwitz.
Raistlin

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