Kampfgruppe Auschwitz

The Auschwitz Combat Group (Kampfgruppe Auschwitz, Grupa Bojowa Oświęcim) was international left-wing resistance organization in Auschwitz concentration camp.

History
Kampfgruppe Auschwitz was founded in 1943. In 1944, together with the Polish Underground State, the Kampfgruppe set up an overall Auschwitz Military Council to coordinate resistance.

Members
The majority of members of the Group were communists, socialists, captured Polish and Soviet partisans, members of anti-Nazi resistance movements, and former members of International Brigades. The members of the Kampfgruppe were from Austria, Poland, France, Germany, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union. Among them were also many Jews.

Leadership

 * Ernst Burger (nom de guerre Adam) - political leader of Kampfgruppe Auschwitz, member of anti-nazi Austrian Resistance.
 * Hermann Langbein (nom de guerre Wiktor)
 * Józef Cyrankiewicz (nom de guerre Rot) responsible for cooperation with resistance groups in another nazi concentration camps
 * Tadeusz Hołuj (nom de guerre Robert) responsible for cooperation with another resistance groups in Auschwitz
 * Heinrich Dürmayer - was appointed after Hermann Langbein
 * Ludwig Soswinski - was appointed after Tadeusz Hołuj
 * Bruno Baum - was appointed after Ernst Burger

Another notable members

 * Alfred Klahr - Austrian communist politician and intellectual
 * Karl Lill
 * Franz Danimann