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xchrom

(108,903 posts) Tue Oct 23, 2012, 06:24 AM Oct 2012

Antoni Dobrowolski, oldest Auschwitz survivor, dies

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-20034347

The oldest known survivor of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp has died aged 108 in Debno, north-west Poland, officials say.

A teacher, Antoni Dobrowolski was imprisoned for giving secret lessons during Germany's occupation of Poland.

Mr Dobrowolski was arrested by the Gestapo and sent to the Nazi concentration camp in 1942.

He was later transferred to the Gross Rosen and Sachsenhausen camps in Germany, before being freed in 1945.

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Antoni Dobrowolski, oldest Auschwitz survivor, dies (Original Post) xchrom Oct 2012 OP

RIP, good sir. GreenPartyVoter Oct 2012 #1

He is deserving of a good, long rest. What a wonderful face. secondwind Oct 2012 #2

This, we should NEVER forget: the Reich Wing always attacks TEACHERS! TahitiNut Oct 2012 #3

So true! Special interest bought and paid for our legislature and, of course, Gov. good hair Perry! Dustlawyer Oct 2012 #5

A chilling line from at article, canoeist52 Oct 2012 #4

GreenPartyVoter

(72,381 posts)

1. RIP, good sir.

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Tue Oct 23, 2012, 07:04 AM

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secondwind

(16,903 posts)

2. He is deserving of a good, long rest. What a wonderful face.

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Tue Oct 23, 2012, 08:18 AM

Oct 2012

TahitiNut

(71,611 posts)

3. This, we should NEVER forget: the Reich Wing always attacks TEACHERS!

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Tue Oct 23, 2012, 08:24 AM

Oct 2012

Just as Texas attempts to criminalize teaching Critical Thinking and the Reich Wing (BOTH GOP and Dem) carries out a full-force assault on teachers and teacher's unions, the Nazis criminalized TEACHING!

Dustlawyer

(10,497 posts)

5. So true! Special interest bought and paid for our legislature and, of course, Gov. good hair Perry!

Reply to TahitiNut (Reply #3)

Tue Oct 23, 2012, 08:26 AM

Oct 2012

canoeist52

(2,282 posts)

4. A chilling line from at article,

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Tue Oct 23, 2012, 08:24 AM

Oct 2012

"Education for Poles was restricted to just four years during the Nazi occupation, in an effort to suppress Polish culture."
They always go after Education first.

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