Jan Karcz
# Jan Karcz

Jan Karcz (16 October 1892, in Modlica near Kraków – 25 January 1943, in Auschwitz) was a Polish Army Colonel, posthumously promoted to the rank of a Brigadier General.

During the Second World War he was held and murdered in the Birkenau concentration camp, of Nazi Germany.

## Awards

* Virtuti Militari, Silver Medal
* Cross of Valour, four times
* Polonia Restituta, Officer Cross
* Cross of Merit, Golden Cross
* Order of the Star of Romania, Officer Cross
* Latvian Commemorative Medal
