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1943: Michal Kruk, Przemysl Pole who aided the Jews

September 6th, 2015 Headsman

In the German-occupied city of Przemysl, Poland on September 6, 1943, Michal Kruk and several other non-Jewish Poles were publicly executed for their roles sheltering Jews being rounded up for the local ghetto — bound, naurally, for worse fates thereafter.


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Przemysl’s Jewish community was almost completely annihilated during the Holocaust.

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Entry Filed under: 20th Century,Capital Punishment,Death Penalty,Execution,Germany,Hanged,History,Mass Executions,Occupation and Colonialism,Poland,Public Executions,Wartime Executions

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2 thoughts on “1943: Michal Kruk, Przemysl Pole who aided the Jews”

  1. arthur bernede says:

    good man murdered by germans

  2. JCF says:

    Memory eternal.

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