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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