Event · Death
Orphans' suicide at the orphanage
Abramczyk and two other orphans hanged themselves at the orphanage entrance.
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... Abramczyk, an orphan residing at the orphanage
at 7 Czestochower Street, tried to persuade the other
orphans to commit suicide because, failing this, they
could look forward to a painful death in the gas
chambers. Only two other orphans obeyed him, the
three hanging themselves at the entrance to the orphan-
age. As it turned out, their death saved all the other
children in the institution. ...Connected nodes