Antoni Gościński OBE (born 4 January 1909

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; died 12 December 1986

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) was a Polish medic. During the

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he was arrested by the Germans in the course of the AB Action and imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp and later in Gusen I concentration camp (Mauthausen). There he became one of the leading doctors in the '' revier'' and a member of the inmates' underground trying to help the sick and wounded prisoners. He also documented German war crimes committed in the camp.

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1909 births 1986 deaths Officers of the Order of the British Empire Physicians from Poznań Dachau concentration camp survivors 20th-century Polish physicians {{poland-med-bio-stub