Impersonating an SS officer, he led a daring escape from the Auschwitz death camp. A picture taken just after the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp complex in 1945 shows a group of children wearing concentration camp uniforms behind barbed wire fencing. Mr. Piechowski enacted his own unlikely escape plan in 1942, two years to the day after he arrived at Auschwitz. If the entire unit disappeared, Mr. Piechowski figured, their block supervisor would likely be held wholly responsible. Mr. Piechowski returned to Auschwitz with his wife, Iga, some 30 years after his escape.

Source: Washington Post December 17, 2017 23:26 UTC