8 February 1901 | A Pole, Walenty Ostrowski, was born in Błędowa. A teacher.
He was deported to Auschwitz from Tarnów on 14 June 1940 in the first transport of Poles to the camp.
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He perished in the camp on 15 August 1942.
See our online lesson that tells the story of the first weeks of the newly created German Nazi camp and its first prisoners - Poles deported from the Cracow district in the General Government: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_17_deportacje/