Tschechische Häftlinge im KZ Auschwitz-Birkenau
Czech Inmates in the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp

Summary/Abstract: The main goal of the paper was to discover how many Czechoslovak citizens were imprisoned in concentration camp Auschwitz not as victims of extermination of Jewish and Roma population. A Database created on sources from many archives and museums gives information about almost 9000 men and 1800 women sent to Auschwitz in period between June 1941 and November 1944 from Czech lands. About 60 % of them were imprisoned for political reasons. More than 52 % of male inmates and 55% of female inmates perished in the camp. Part of prisoners was transferred to other camps, only few were released from Auschwitz.

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