Siege
Digging Anti-Tank Ditches
Dawid Sierakowiak Diary Entry
Anna Wajcblum Heilman Interview
Chaim Kaplan Diary Entry
Leo Schneiderman Interview
Marjan Glass’s Pants
George Salton Interview
Warsaw Residents Dig Defenses
Leonard Zawacki Interview
Damaged Family Photo
Refugee’s Knapsack
Execution of Father Piotr Sosnowski
Under SS command, ethnic Germans—members of a Selbstchutz (“Self-Defense”) unit—executed Piotr Sosnowski, a priest, in the Tuchola forest on October 27, 1939. —US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Instytut Pamięci Narodowej
Piotr was from nearby Byslaw, Poland, and one of 45 Polish civilians killed in this action, ostensibly in reprisal for the burning of two barns owned by ethnic Germans in Piastozyn.
