Notable Inmates
- Halina Birenbaum - writer, poet and translator
- Marian Filar - pianist
- Otto Freundlich - one of the artists included in the Nazis' 1937 "Degenerate Art" exhibition
- Israel Gutman - historian
- Henio Zytomirski - child becoming an icon of the Holocaust in Poland.
- Dmitry Karbyshev - Soviet general, Hero of the Soviet Union
- Omelyan Kovch - Ukrainian priest
- Igor Newerly - writer
- Vladek Spiegelman, whose story is the basis for Art Spiegelman's Maus.
- Rudolf Vrba - transferred to Auschwitz, from which he escaped, and about which he co-authored the Vrba-Wetzler report, one of the first inside reports of the camp, and published during wartime.
- Mietek Grocher - Survived nine different camps. Now a lecturer residing in Västerås, Sweden. Author of Jag överlevde (eng. I Survived).
- Maryla Husyt Finkelstein - Late mother of the author and Middle East critic Dr Norman Finkelstein.
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