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A personal list with dates of birth and death was found by accident only in 2005 during a search conducted in the district archives by an association of local culture and history. Thanks to the… more
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Between 1942 and April 1945, there were about 25,000 convicts in the camp, most of whom were Russians, Poles, French and Czechs. These people performed the heaviest unpaid work for the Third Reich,… more
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Shortly after the end of the war, Poles from nearby towns started to settle in the barracks on the former military training ground. In 1948, thanks to the consent of the occupying authorities, a… more
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POLISH SOLDIER AK
Ś.P. WOJCIECH KALIŃSKI 3.6.1925 † 24.5.1945
ŻOŁNIERZ ARMII KRAJOWEJ
ARESZTOWANY PRZEZ GESTAPO W SIEDLCACH I ZESŁANY DO OBOZÓW AUSCHWIZ, NATZWEILER, BUCHENWALD, MITTELBAU, BELSEN,… more
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The son of a town clerk, Matthew came from a well-to-do middle-class family and received a basic education in Kraków, probably at the Marian School. He went to Prague to study, where he obtained a “… more
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The camp consisted of three separate parts. The first one, called the preventive arrest camp, covered 40 hectares, with 34 wooden barracks and 16 two-storey stone barracks. A high barbed-wire fence… more
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The first mass executions under the sentences issued by the Gestapo and special courts were carried out in September 1941. On the basis of the Kommissarbefehl (order on commissioners), issued on the… more
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Citizens of Western countries and Poles had milder police supervision. The Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians stayed in fenced barracks and were guarded by armed wardens from Mitteldeutsche… more