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The gallows in front of the camp kitchen building at Auschwitz I site. On 19 July 1943, 12 Polish prisoners from the surveying unit were executed there. They were condemned for helping three other prisoners from the surveying squad in their escape in mid-January 1943. They were: Stanisław Stawiński (No. 6569), Czesław Marcisz (No. 26891), Janusz Skrzetuski-Pogonowski (No. 253), Edmund Sikorski (No. 25419), Jerzy Woźniak (No. 35650), Józef Wojtyga (No. 24740), Zbigniew Foltański (No. 41664), Bogu