Brotherhood in Suffering

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Brotherhood in Suffering
Brotherhood in Suffering features illustrations
of life in concentration camps by Auschwitz
survivor Jan Komski. These artworks provide us
with documentation of the suffering and death of
the innocent Jews, Poles and other victims at the
hands of the Nazis.
Jan Komski was a Polish Catholic arrested while
crossing the border attempting to reach the newly
formed Polish Army in France. One of the first
prisoners at Auschwitz, he arrived there on June
14, 1940 and given the number 564. In 1942,
Komski managed to escape but was later arrested
again in the city of Krakow. Komski was lucky not
to be recognized and his new identity papers bore
a different name. In addition to Auschwitz,
Komski was imprisoned in Buchenwald, Hersbruck,
Gross-Rosen and Dachau, where he was liberated in
1945.
Brotherhood in Suffering March 11th - June
25thOpening March 16th, 2006
Florida Holocaust Museum
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Eating and Starvation
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Each prisoner was supposed to receive a daily
ration of 350 grams of bread, half a liter of
ersatz coffee for breakfast, and one liter of
turnip and potato soup for lunch. Also, four
times a week each prisoner was supposed to
receive soup with 20 grams of meat. The soup
rarely reached the prisoners. Food content ranged
from 1,300 calories for light-work prisoners to
1,700 calories for prisoners performing hard
labor. The Kapo made sure that the thicker, more
nourishing contents from the bottom of the food
barrel, were given to his favorite prisoners.
Others had to subsist on the watery substance
from the top. Prisoners often had dysentery, and
swelling of limbs suffering from a sickness known
as starvation disease. The SS and the Capos
treated them as if they were healthy and so they
had to march to work every morning. The SS
calculated that a prisoner could exist on the
daily food ration for about three months. Then he
was supposed to die.
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Appell (Roll Call)
"At almost each block, beside the men standing in
line, bodies of persons are lying. These are the
victims of the night that have not lived to see
the day. Even yesterday they were standing
numbers at the roll call and today they lie,
lifeless and motionless. Life is not important at
the roll call. Numbers are important. Numbers
tally. How horribly they are looking, as if
returned from the war. These are the marks of
yesterday's work." Salmen Gradowski (1973). in
Amidst a Nightmare of Crime. Oswiecim Auschwitz
State Museum Publication.
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Warmth
The prisoners used the 15 minutes of free time
before the roll, trying to stay warm.
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"Ecce homo (Latin "This is a Man")
This man is being released from the camp
hospital. He is considered fit to work.
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Leftovers
Scraping the bottom of the pot. Fill me, the Hole.
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Roundup
People being arrested in a Polish town. Children
are also the enemies of the Third Reich.
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Murder by The SS
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The Black Wall, in the courtyard of Block 11,
where many innocent people were shot at the base
of the neck. About 20,000 people were executed
here between 1940 and 1944. The officer in the
picture is Lagerführer Altmeier, the camp's chief
officer at the time of Komski's escape. The man
doing the shooting is Rapportfürher Gerhard
Palitsch. He himself shot most of the 20,000 men,
women, and children murdered at this wall.
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Looking for scraps

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Food line in the main camp (Auschwitz I).
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Administrative Punishment
When something unauthorized was found on a
prisoner, like an extra piece of bread, he was
subjected to this punishment. Komski himself hung
like this an hour a day for three consecutive
days, because he brought food and medicine back
to the camp after a day at work.
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Hanging and Eating
This is what starvation can do to good people.
Constantly surrounded by death and suffering,
they have grown accustomed to sights like this.
The hanging body of a fellow inmate will not
deter them from their meager ration. (Painting
in Auschwitz Museum)
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The Death Brigade
These men were assigned the job of collecting the
dead each day and taking them to the crematorium.
They were called the leichenkommando, literal
translation corpse squad.
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Big escape
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Photo taken an hour after Komski's arrival in
Andrzej Harat'shouse after his escape from
Auschwitz.From left Mieczyslaw Januszewski, Jan
Komski (standing), Otto Küsel, Boleslaw
Kuczbara, Andrzej Harat and his daughter
Wladyslawa Harat.
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An SS Christmas Tree Ornament
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A photo for the album
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Canada kommando
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Panorama of Birkenau
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The identification
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The loser
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Hangig
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Krematorium
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Roll call
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No escape no choice
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Jobs for men in womens camp
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Evacuation
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Horse stable barac
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Sport
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The arrival
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Liberation
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After the war, Mr. Komski immigrated to the USA,
became a US citizen, and worked for the
Washington post as an illustrator for many years.
At 86, he is painting every day and, weather
permitting, walks every day as well. Mr. Komski
passed away in 2002, at the age of 87. Till his
last days, he remained alert, lively, very
courteous and caring of others.
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Created by Agi In memoriam
April 2006