Paragraph 175 of the German Penal Code criminalized homosexual contacts between men. One possible punishment was imprisonment in a concentration camp. Also at Auschwitz, there was a small group of men convicted of homosexuality. Dr. Agnieszka Kita, deputy head of the Auschwitz Museum Archives, talks about the persecution of homosexual men in Nazi Germany and the postwar memory of their fate.

English voiceover: Kate Weinrieb

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Our online lesson about this group of prisoners of Auschwitz by Bogdan Piętka from the Research Center of the Auschwitz Museum.

On June 14, 1940, the Germans deported a group of 728 Poles from a prison in Tarnow to Auschwitz. Among them were soldiers of the September campaign, members ofunderground independence organizations, high school and university students, as well as a small group of Polish Jews. They were registered with nos. from 31 to 758. The podcast "On Auschwitz" presents fragments of testimonies of:- Kazimierz Albin,

- Jan Baraś-Komski,

- Zbigniew Bentkowski,

- Włodzimierz Borkowski,

- Edward Ferenc,

- Adam Jurkiewicz,

- Stanisław Maliński,

- Eugeniusz Niedojadło,

- Wiktor Pasikowski,

- Tadeusz Pietrzykowski,

- Bronisław Wajda,

- Alfred Wilk

- Stanisław Zyguła.

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See also our online lesson about this topic:http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_17_deportacje/

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Voiceovers:Tom Vamos, Greg Littlefield, Grey Stanford, Mike Skagerlind, Michael Takiff, Toon Dressen

Block 10 at the Auschwitz I camp was the so-called experimental block. SS doctors conducted medical experiments there, including those focused on sterilization. Why was this particular block chosen for such experiments, who were the doctors working there, and what happened to their victims? These questions are explored by Teresa Wontor-Cichy from the Research Center of the Museum.

Voiceover: Therese McLaughlin

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On-line lesson about medical crimes at Auschwitz: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_medycyna_en/