Given name: Maksymilian (Milek) Family name: Tyn

  • YES
  • Male
  • Maksymilian (Milek)
  • Tyn
  • January/February 1942
  • Warszawa
  • a Gestapo collaborator, well-known in the ghetto. Found shot (the bullet wound was in his back) in Bednarska or Szkolna Street. According to another version of the story, the Gestapo shot him, because he had become inconvenient; according to others an underground organization killed him because he denounced Polish. Milk's death made a huge impression in the ghetto.

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

  • [27,, s., 42]