Antoni Dobrowolski died at the age of 108 in
Debno, Poland according to Jaroslaw Mensfelt, a spokesman for the Auschwitz-Birkenau state museum said on Sunday.
He was a teacher during the Nazi invasion in Poland, Dobrowolski was arrested by the Gestapo and sent to Auschwitz in
1942 for holding underground lessons.. After the Nazi's invaded
Poland in 1939, the Germans banned anything beyond four years of elementary
education to crush Polish culture and to dumb down the inhabitants. "The
Germans considered the Poles
inferior beings, and the education policy was part of a plan to use Poles as a
'slave race.'" Dobrowolski was later moved to concentrations camps in
Gross-Rosen and Sachsenhause, where he was
released in 1945. After he was released, Dobrowolski moved to Debno,
where he continued to work as a Polish-language teacher and as an elementary
school teacher and later as a high school teacher. During the time Dobrowolski
was at Auschwitz, the Germans killed over at least 1.1 million people, both Jewish
and non-Jewish. Doborwolski will be buried in Debno on Wednesday.
by: Carrigan Davis
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