Jan Karcz
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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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