On 27 May 1942, 168 prisoners were shot at the execution wall in the courtyard of Block 11 in Auschwitz I. They belonged to the group of Polish painters, artists and actors who were arrested on 16 April 1942 in the Artists Cafe in Krakow and sent to Auschwitz on 24 and 25 April. The prisoners were taken to the courtyard four at a time and shot. The Block master uttered the following sentence: For the murder of the head of the Luftwaffe in Krakow, you are condemned to death. Then they were killed with individual shots from a small-caliber weapon. Present at the execution were the head of the Political Department Maximilian Grabner, Protective Custody Commander Hans Aumeier and the head of the Labor Deployment Department Heinrich Schwarz. On the same day in Prague Reinhard Heydrich was assassinated.
Posted on: Tue, 27 May 2014 11:00:00 +0000
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