The data used for this database was collected as part of a study carried out by Christiane Rothländer on Austrians working as guards and in the camp SS at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. So far, 163 persons could be identified by name.

Database of perpetrators at Auschwitz

Details

Last name:

Janisch

First name:

Josef

Date of birth:

22.04.1909

Place of birth:

Salzburg

Time at Auschwitz:

01.12.1941-15.05.1944

Rank:

SS-WVHA/Oranienburg - Amtsgruppe C/SS-Zentralbauleitung KL Auschwitz II - Bauführer: [1.12.1941] - 15.5.1944 ab November 1941 mit dem Bau der Vergasungsanlagen beauftragt

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