Czesław Mordowicz

Czesław Mordowicz (2 August 1919 – 28 October 2001) was a Polish Jew who, with , escaped from the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland on 27 May 1944, at the height of the Holocaust. A seven-page report dictated by Mordowicz and Rosin joined the Vrba–Wetzler report and a report by Jerzy Tabeau to become the Auschwitz Protocols, a detailed account of the mass murder taking place inside the camp.

Early life Mordowicz was born in Mława, Poland, to Anna Wicińska, a local actor, and her husband Herman Mordowicz, a grain merchant.

Escape from Auschwitz

On 27 May 1944 Mordowicz (prisoner no. 84216) escaped from Auschwitz in German-occupied Poland to Slovakia with Arnošt Rosin (no. 29858), originally from Snina, Slovakia. They arrived in Slovakia on 6 June, Decades later Mordowicz described his efforts to warn other passengers on the train to Auschwitz that they were being taken to their deaths and should try to jump. The passengers began shouting and banging on the doors, he told an interviewer, to which the guards responded by beating him. He then chewed off the tattoo with his prisoner number, hoping the SS at Auschwitz would not be able to identify him.

The Mordowicz-Rosin Report The report by Mordowicz and Rosin reached the Vatican in June 1944. On July 10, the representative of the Jewish Council who had recorded Mordowicz and Rosin’s accounts drafted a German version of their report, which was sent to Switzerland and Turkey.