Józef Paczyński

Józef Paczyński (29 January 1920 – 26 April 2015) was a Polish man who was known for having been the personal barber of Rudolf Höss during the time he spent as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Biography At the age of 19, Paczyński was captured by the Nazis when trying to cross into Slovakia to join Polish freedom fighters in France. In June 1940, he was transported to Auschwitz, where he was assigned prisoner number 121. At the camp, he was assigned to work in a barbershop. One day, Höss visited the shop and chose Paczyński to come to Höss's home at the edge of the camp to cut his hair.

He was moved from Auschwitz to Loslau on 18 January 1945, making him one of the longest-surviving prisoners in the camp.

Paczyński died on 26 April 2015, at the age of 95.