In this undated file photo from 1979, a former inmate of the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland sometime in 1979, gazes down at ruins of gas chambers where hundreds of people were exterminated during World War II. The oldest known survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp, a teacher who gave lessons in defiance of his native Poland's Nazi occupiers has died at the age of 108, an official said Monday, Oct. 22, 2012. Antoni Dobrowolski died Sunday in the northwestern Polish town of Debno, according to Jaroslaw Mensfelt, a spokesman at the Auschwitz-Birkenau state museum. (AP Photo/Horst Faas)

Auschwitz Survivor Dies at 108

Presumably the oldest survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau died on sunday in the Polish town of Debno.Antoni Dobrowolski
was 108 years old.
Dobrowolski,a former teacher of Polish,was arrested by the Gestapo in 1942 for having given lessons in secret.After the invasion of Poland in 1939 ,the Nazi's only allowed 4 years of basic  education.This in an effort to eradicate the Polish culture.
After spending time in Auschwitz,Dobrowolski was transferred to KZ Gross-Rosen and later still to Sachenhausen,where he was liberated in 1945.

Oldest Ausschwitz survivor dies

Flight Lieutenant William Walker, Battle of Britain veteran - a recent 'photo, holding the bullet removed from his ankle in August, 1940, following his rescue from the English Channel.  JR.