The People

The Nazi Guards

Franz Stangl
Camp kommandant
Kurt Franz
SS lieutenant and Stangl’s deputy, known by prisoners as “the Doll”
Otto Horn
SS corporal in Camp 2
Kurt Kuttner
SS staff sergeant, also known as “Kiewe”
Willi Mentz
SS sergeant who runs the Lazarette
August Miete
SS sergeant, also known as the “Angel of Death”
Franz Suchomel
SS sergeant in Camp 1, in charge of processing the valuables

The Polish Jews

Edek
A fourteen-year-old accordion player from Warsaw
David Brat
An older gentleman from Warsaw
Julian Chorazycki
A doctor from Warsaw
Al Marceli Galewski
Camp elder, an engineer from Lodz
Tchechia Mandel
A young woman from Lemberg (Lwow)
Benjamin Rakowski
A farmer from Jedrzejow
Bronka Sukno
A young woman from Warsaw
Jankiel Wiernik
A carpenter from Warsaw
Samuel Willenberg
A nineteen-year-old from Czestochowa

The Czech Jews

Robert Altschul
A medical student from Prague
Zelo Bloch
A former lieutenant in the Czech Army
Hans Freund
A young businessman from Prague
Richard Glazar
A young man from Prague
Rudi Masarek
A former lieutenant in the Czech Army
Karel Unger
A young man from Prague
Camp 1
The processing area, also known as the lower camp
Camp 2
The extermination area, also known as the upper camp
Blue bands
Jewish workers at the unloading platform
Red bands
Jewish workers inside the disrobing barracks