Mieczysław
Kościelniak,
Polish artist and prisoner,
incarcerated at Auschwitz from
May 1942 to January 1945,
quoted in the catalogue Bilder von Auschwitz
(Frankfurt, 1982)
The
desire and aim of the
SS
was to create a prisoner who submitted to the continuing terror of the camp
without thought, without initiative, following every order. We quickly escaped
this through jokes, songs, poems, irony, and caricature.
