Connect to share and comment The world's oldest Auschwitz
survivor, Antoni Dobrowolski defied the Nazis to teach Polish
children. The world's oldest survivor of the Auschwitz
concentration camp in Poland is dead at 108. More from
GlobalPost: Auschwitz documents surface, then vanish A teacher
by trade, he was imprisoned at the death camp for giving lessons
to Polish children in defiance of his Nazi occupiers. After the
Germans invaded Poland, sparking World War II, the Nazis banned
Poles from anything beyond four years of elementary education in
a bid to crush the country's people and its culture, according
to the AP. More from GlobalPost: Auschwitz survivor and museum
director dies on 60th anniversary of liberation But an
underground movement known as the Secret Teaching Organization
sought to keep the country's education system alive and well.
Dobrowolski and other Polish teachers engaged in the effort were
arrested by the Gestapo and sent to Auschwitz in June 1942,
according to Poland's Gazeta Wyborcza. Dob