A new database holds the faces of the guards who oversaw the atrocities at Auschwitz

Joseph Hefner, former student merchant. Joined SS in 1942 as a Sturmmann (Stormtrooper).

Image: Institute of National Remembrance

Following the invasion of Poland by Germany in September 1939, construction began on a complex of camps to house thousands of Polish political prisoners — Auschwitz.

The first...