Jan Karcz

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Jan Karcz in Auschwitz, inmate number 23569

Jan Karcz (16 October 1892, in Modlica near Kraków – 25 January 1943, in Auschwitz) was a Polish Army colonel, posthumously promoted to the rank of a brigadier general.

During the Second World War he was held and murdered in the Birkenau concentration camp,^[1] of Nazi Germany.

Awards

Virtuti Militari, Silver Medal
Cross of Valour, four times
Polonia Restituta, Officer Cross
Cross of Merit, Golden Cross
Order of the Star of Romania, Officer Cross
Latvian Commemorative Medal

References

^ Auschwitz, the Allies and Censorship of the Holocaust, p. 132, at Google Books

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