During the war, from December 1939 to July 1941, Palmiry was a place of mass murders, as part of the AB Action, carried out by the Germans on civilians, mainly former prisoners of Pawiak and the prisons at Daniłowiczowska and Rakowiecka Streets. During the occupation, this place was called one of the Warsaw rings of death. The bodies of the victims were exhumed in 1946 (out of nearly 2,000 victims of execution, about 400 people were identified).
Palmiry Cemetery, photo: Wikipedia
The next mass execution in Palmiry took place on 12th of June 1941. 30 Pawiak prisoners were killed, including 14 women. The murdered were not related to each other – they were arrested at different times and for different reasons. The victims included: Witold Hulewicz (poet, former program director of the Vilnius Polish Radio station and manager of the local theater "Reduta"), Stanisław Malinowski (lawyer), Stanisław Piasecki (nationalist activist, publicist, literary critic) and Jerzy Szurig (lawyer, publicist, syndicalist activist). A few weeks later, on 17th of July 1941, 47 people (including six women) were shot in Palmiry – most of them Pawiak prisoners. The murdered included Zygmunt Dymek (journalist, union activist), Paweł Piątkowski (ophthalmologist) and Jan Bróg (engineer).
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