FRANCISZEK JAŹWIECKI

Prisoner photo from Auschwitz, Courtesy Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim

Born December 23, 1900 in Kraków, Poland; died October 16, 1946 in Świdnica, Poland

Background
Jaźwiecki studied at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts, where he specialized in graphic art.

Arrest and Deportation to Auschwitz
He was arrested in Kraków in 1940, sent to Montelupic prison in Kraków, and was later transferred to a prison in Radom.  September 19, 1942 he was deported to Auschwitz and assigned prisoner number 79042.

Art Produced at Auschwitz
Jaźwiecki produced more than 100 portraits of fellow prisoners at Auschwitz and later at other concentration camps.

Transfer to Other Camps
He was transferred to Gross-Rosen concentration camp on March 12, 1943, deported to Sachsenhausen on April 22, 1943, and sent to Halberstadt, a subcamp of Buchenwald, on July 22, 1944.

Bibliography:
Archives at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim.

Jaworska, Janina.  Nie wszystek umrę... Warsaw, 1975.

Milton, Sybil and Janet Blatter.  Art of the Holocaust. New York, 1981.