Bruno Brodniewicz (also spelled Brodniewitsch[1]) born 22 July 1895 in Posen,[2] was a German prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp.
[5] He wore prisoner tag number 1 and was considered "Black Death" (Czarna śmierć) in the camp.
Brodniewicz was then sent to the punishment bunker in late December 1942 or early January 1943 and was replaced as the camp elder.
[7] After Auschwitz was evacuated in January 1945, Brodniewicz was transferred to the Woffleben subcamp, where he also held the position of camp elder.
After the Bergen-Belsen camp was liberated on 15 April 1945, he and other functionaries were presumably lynched by fellow inmates for his crimes.