Antoni Gościński

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Antoni Gościński was a Polish medic. During the World War II he was arrested by the Germans in the course of the AB Action and imprisoned in Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. There he became one of the doctors in the revier ("Krankenrevier", sick bay) and a member of the inmate's underground trying to help the sick and wounded prisoners. The chief inmate surgeon of the Revier in Gusen, he saved many prisoners. He also documented German war crimes committed in the camp.