Prisoner photo from Auschwitz, Courtesy Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim
BRONISŁAW LATAWIEC
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Prisoner photo from Auschwitz, Courtesy Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim |
Arrest and Deportation to Auschwitz
Under the pseudonym
Ikar, Latawiec published caricatures in several Polish periodicals, including
Pocieglem and Wroblami na dachu. January 21, 1941, he was arrested in Charzewicach
for some caricatures of Hitler that appeared in several Polish newspapers at
that time. He was imprisoned in Montelupic
prison in Kraków and later deported to Auschwitz,
where he was assigned prisoner number 11995 and placed in barrack 5.
No
further information is currently available.
Bibliography:
Archives
at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim.