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Auschwitz Memorial

21 January 1902 | A Pole, Jan Ekielski, was born in Krakow. An architect.

In from 25 April 1942.
No. 33112
He was shot in the camp on 27 May 1942.

A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.
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Drew Milroy

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Mr. Ekeilski was a victim of the brutal pattern. Usually men, facial bruises in the photos, often around the eyes: dead in a few days or weeks.
Does anyone know what, if anything else, they had in common? Why were they selected to enter the camp but literally marked for early death inside?

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