Franciszek Jaźwiecki
Adam Franciszek Jaźwiecki was a Polish political prisoner and artist interned in Auschwitz, known as the Portraitist of Auschwitz for his portraits of other inmates. On December 1, 1942, Jaźwiecki was deported from Kraków to Auschwitz. Jaźwiecki worked in Auschwitz's carpentry workshop and paint workshop. Prisoners were not allowed to make art, under penalty of torture or death, and so Jaźwiecki had to hide his portraits, which he did in his clothes or bed. However, they were eventually discovered by the SS, and SS-Scharführer Wilhelm Boger was assigned to investigate his case. “He sits down behind the table and browses through my drawings. … Through hurting eyes I can see him looking at them with interest. … Thus I feel I’m not going to be hanged, I also feel that he is going to punish me in his own way and not through the Politische Abteilung, because he wants to steal these drawings for himself. … Otherwise, he would have to send them away with me, and he’s putting them into the drawer.” - Jaźwiecki on SS-Scharführer Wilhelm BogerJaźwiecki was sentenced to three months in a penal company and forbidden from sending or receiving letters. “With a load of 40