page_title: Zalman Gradowski
hierarchical_section_title: Zalman Gradowski
caption_attribution_description: English: Zalman Gradowski; 1910 - 7 October 1944, a Jewish prisoner in Birkenau and one of the Sonderkommando slave workers, wrote diaries about his unit, which he buried in the camp. Gradowski was in the leadership of the Jewish revolt in the camp. He was murdered. In this photo, Zalman and his wife Sonia on their wedding day. Date ca. 1935עברית: זלמן גרדובסקי ואשתו סוניה ביום חתונתם.
context_page_description: Zalman Gradowski or Chaim Zalman Gradowski originally from Suwałki, was a Polish Jewish prisoner of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during the Holocaust in occupied Poland. He arrived in November 1942 aboard a Holocaust train from Kalabosin. After "selection" his family members perished. He was sent to work in the Sonderkommando slave labour unit.
context_section_description: Zalman Gradowski or Chaim Zalman Gradowski (1910 – 7 October 1944) originally from Suwałki, was a Polish Jewish prisoner of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during the Holocaust in occupied Poland. He arrived in November 1942 aboard a Holocaust train from Kalabosin (see: Kiełbasin Sammellager servicing Grodno Ghetto, possible spelling error). After "selection" his family members perished. He was sent to work in the Sonderkommando slave labour unit.
caption: Zalman Gradowski and his wife Sonia on their wedding day, ca. 1935
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