Jozef Garlinski - Fighting Auschwitz: The Resistance Movement in the Concentration Camp

FIGHTING

AUSCHWITZ

THE RESISTANCE MOVEMENT IN THE
CONCENTRATION CAMP

Jzef Garliski

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Second English edition by Aquila Polonica first published 2018.

First English edition published 1975 by Julian Friedmann Publishers, Ltd.

Polish editions include those by Odnova Ltd. (1974); Volumen (1992); Volumen and Bellona (1994); Polska Fundacja Kulturalna (1997).

ISBN (Aquila Polonica edition, hardcover): 978-1-60772-024-9

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ISBN (Aquila Polonica edition, trade paperback): 978-1-60772-025-6

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Supervising Editor: Terry A. Tegnazian. Editorial Assistant: Alex Kwong. Cover design and interior book design in this Aquila Polonica edition are by Ewa Wojciak, and are reproduced with permission. Maps by Stefan Mucha and those by Jason Jones are reproduced with permission.

Photographs and other illustrative material are either in the public domain or reproduced with permission, and are from the collections of the following: The Archive of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum (ABM); Archiwum Akt Nowych (Central Archives of Modern Records), Warsaw (AAN); Bundesarchiv (BA); Jarek Garliski (JG); Historical Museum of the City of Warsaw (HMCW); Julian Kulski (JK); Stefan Mucha (SM); Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe (NAC); Zofia Pilecka-Optuowicz and Andrzej Pilecki (Pilecki Family); The Polish Underground Movement (19391945) Study Trust (PUMST); United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Zygmunt Walkowski (ZW); Wiener Stadt- und Landesarchiv (WSL); and Yad Vashem Photo Archive, Jerusalem (YV).

Where ABM is followed by a slash and the letters that appear below, the full credit includes the following information: DKcourtesy of SS Dietrich Kamann; LFcourtesy of Lidia Foryciarz.

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The views or opinions expressed in this work, and the context in which the USHMM images are used, do not necessarily reflect the views or policy of, nor imply approval or endorsement by, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Illustrations credited to the Polish Underground Movement (19391945) Study Trust are copyrighted and cannot be reproduced in any format without the Trusts consent. The Trust can be contacted at the following address: 11 Leopold Road, London W5 3PB, United Kingdom.

Special thanks to the following for their assistance in preparing this Aquila Polonica edition:

Dr. Wojciech Posa, Head of Archives, Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, for his generosity in providing a large number of photographs and other images, graciously double-checking facts, and answering numerous questions;

Dr. Adam Cyra, Senior Curator, Department of Historical Research, Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, for his kind permission to use excerpts from his review of the 1992 Polish edition; and

Lidia Tuodziecka, for her diligent research assistance in locating photographs and checking bibliographic sources.

EUROPE 1939

To my wife

POLAND 1939

CONTENTS

LIST OF MAPS

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