Władysław Bartoszewski on German AB-Aktion in Poland

“The fate of the majority of those imprisoned in Warsaw by Aktion A-B in spring 1940 was settled. June became the month of mass executions, starting on the 14th.”

“I got to Auschwitz via a mass operation, known by its perpetrators as "Aktion A-B". It affected tens of thousands in central Poland, in Kraków, Warsaw and Częstochowa. Thousands of young men were taken from their homes or off the streets in June 1940 and taken, as a precaution, to the new concentration camp at Oświęcim”