30 December 1944 | 5 prisoners were hanged in Auschwitz after the evening roll-call. One of them was Bernard Świerczyna, a Polish soldier, co-organiser of the resistance in the camp. 3 days before his death he wrote those words in cell 28 in the bunker of Block 11. 1/3 
Other prisoners hanged during this execution were: a Pole Piotr Piąty and Austrians: Ernst Burger, Rudolf Friemel (in the picture) and Ludwig Vesely. They tried to escape from the camp on 27 October 1944. 2/3
The escape was thwarted by the betrayal of a bribed SS guard Johann Roth (in the picture). Instead of getting them out hidden inside a car, he drove them straight to Block 11 at Auschwitz I. The execution on 30 December 1944 was the last execution at the Auschwitz I camp. 3/3
