Given name: Unknown Family name: Śliwniak

  • YES
  • Male
  • Śliwniak
  • ca. 1920
  • spring 1942
  • Warszawa
  • In 1939 he fought near Warsaw in the battalions 'Warsaw Children'(Dzieci Warszawy). During the siege of Warsaw he became famous for conquering a German tank. He was heavily wounded then. Member of Invalids Union 1939. Germans came to his flat at 9 am. He was not there as he went that day to the Arbeitsamt (Employment Office). Germans went there after him, found in the queue, took him out and shot at the street.

  • youth
  • Documents from the State Archive of New Records regarding
    the Warsaw Ghetto.

  • [28,, s., 45]