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.
Przemysl’s Jewish community was almost completely annihilated during the Holocaust.
On this day..
- 1917: Sgt. John Wall, Passchendaele casualty
- 1751: James Welch and Thomas Jones, the right guys this time
- 1678: Five at Tyburn
- 1594: Thomas Merry and Rachel Merry, lamentable tragedie
- 1952: Wolfgang Kaiser
- 1771: Matthias Klostermayr, the Bavarian Hiasl
- 1833: Antoine LeBlanc, billfolded
- 1707: Pierre Fatio, Genevan Gracchus
- 1811: John Andrews, whisky man
- 1635: Francisco de Nava, precipitating a church-state conflict
- 2006: 27 at Abu Ghraib Prison
- 1872: Patrick Morrissey, by a future U.S. president