Antoni Dobrowolski, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Polish teacher and concentration camp survivior
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Place of Birth: Wolbórz, Łódź Voivodeship, Poland
About Antoni Dobrowolski
- Antoni Dobrowolski (October 8, 1904 – October 21, 2012) was a Polish educator, teacher and Holocaust survivor.
- At the time of his death in 2012, Dobrowolski was the oldest known survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp.Dobrowolski was born in Wolborz, present-day Poland, on October 8, 1904.Nazi German authorities limited the education of ethnic Polish children to only four years during the occupation of Poland in order to undermine Polish culture.
- Despite the ban, Dobrowolski joined the Secret Teaching Organization to provide underground education in occupied Poland, according to Auschwitz historian Adam Cyra.
- Dobrowolski was discovered and arrested in June 1942 by the Gestapo.
- He was sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where he was assigned the prisoner number 38081.
- Dobrowolski later recalled that "Auschwitz was worse than Dante's hell." He was transferred to the Gross-Rosen concentration camp and Sachsenhausen concentration camp, remaining a prisoner until his release in 1945.He moved to Debno, Poland, following the end of World War II following his liberation.
- He worked as an elementary school teacher, before becoming the director of a high school.Dorbrowolski died on October 21, 2012, in Debno, Poland, at the age of 108.
- He was the oldest known survivor of Auschwitz at the time.
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