WARSAW, Poland — An official says the oldest known former
prisoner of the Auschwitz death camp has died in Poland at the
age of 108. Jaroslaw Mensfelt, a spokesman at the Auschwitz-
Birkenau state museum, says Antoni Dobrowolski died Sunday in
the northwestern town of Debno. The one-time Polish teacher was
arrested by the Gestapo and sent to Auschwitz in 1942 for
holding underground lessons. After they invaded Poland in 1939,
the Germans had banned anything beyond four years of elementary
education as they tried to crush Polish culture and the
intelligentsia. Dobrowolski was later moved to the concentration
camps of Gross-Rosen and Sachsenhausen, where he was liberated
in 1945. The Germans killed at least 1.1 million people at
Auschwitz. Most victims were Jews, but many non-Jewish Poles,
Roma and others were also killed.