Andrzej Munk

Andrzej Munk

male, deceased (1961)
Polska Kronika Filmowa, Kasprowy Wierch, film director, polish, krakow, warsawuprising…Warsaw University, Warsaw University of Technology
Andrzej Munk was a Polish film director, screenplay writer and camera operator and was one of the most influential artists of the Polish Film...
Marek Edelman

Marek Edelman

male, 87 years old
Jewish, Solidarity, Order of the White Eagle, Armia Krajowa, martial law in Poland, Łódź…warsawuprising, warsaw ghetto uprising
Marek Edelman is a Jewish-Polish political and social activist, cardiologist, and the last living leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Born in...
Witold Pilecki

Witold Pilecki

male, deceased (1948)
execution, auschwitz concentration camp, polish, Nazi Germany, warsawuprising, Polish resistance fighter
Witold Pilecki (May 13, 1901 - May 25, 1948; pronounced ['vitɔld pi'leʦki]; codenames "Roman Jezierski, Tomasz Serafiński, Druh, Witold") was a sol...

Władysław Bartoszewski

male, 87 years old
World War II, polish, warsawuprising, Home Army, auschwitz, Minister of Foreign Affairs
Władysław Bartoszewski – Polish politician, social activist, professor of history, journalist, writer, Auschwitz inmate, soldier of the Home Army...
Oskar Dirlewanger

Oskar Dirlewanger

male, deceased (1945)
Recipient of the Spanish Cross, Holocaust perpetrator, Recipient of the Knight's Cross, Recipient of the Close Combat Clasp, Recipient of the Iron Cross, freikorps…warsawuprising
Oskar Dirlewanger was a World War II officer with the Schutzstaffel (SS). He commanded the infamous SS-Sturmbrigade "Dirlewanger" unit made out of...

Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński

male, deceased (1944)
Warsaw University alumni, Związek Harcerstwa Polskiego, writer, polish language, polish, warsawuprising…From Warsaw, Warsaw University
Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński - Polish poet and Home Army soldier. Baczyński was born in Warsaw in the family of renowned literary critic Stanisław Bac...
Andrzej Panufnik

Andrzej Panufnik

male, deceased (1991)
Polish Briton, immigrant to the United Kingdom, Sir Andrzej Panufnik, pianist, polish, composer…From Warsaw, Warsaw Conservatory, warsawuprising, director of the Warsaw Philharmonic, born in Warsaw on 24 September 1914
Sir Andrzej Panufnik (September 24, 1914 - October 27,1991) was a Polish composer, pianist, and conductor.
Heinz Reinefarth

Heinz Reinefarth

male, deceased (1979)
Holocaust perpetrator, Recipient of the Knight's Cross, SS and Police Leader, Westerland, Heinrich Reinefarth, World War II atrocities in Poland…warsawuprising
Heinrich Reinefarth (commonly known as Heinz Reinefarth, December 26, 1903-May 7, 1979) was a German official and military officer during and after...

Antoni Chruściel

male, deceased (1960)
Colditz prisoner of WWII, Austro-Hungarian Army, Recipient of Virtuti Militari, polish, warsawuprising, de facto
Gen. Antoni Chruściel was a Polish military officer and a general of the Polish Army. He is best known as the "de facto" commander of all the a...
Jerzy Kirchmayer

Jerzy Kirchmayer

male, deceased (1959)
historian, World War I, polish, captain, galicia, krakow…warsawuprising
Jerzy Maria Kirchmayer was a Polish historian and military commander, a brigadier general of the Polish Army and one of the first historians of the...