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Edmund Kwasek and others
He was a member of political police in communist Poland. He used to run brutal interrogations of political prisoners in 1950s. Kwasek was the only one who repented for his deeds during a trial in 1990s.
pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Kwasek
Kwasek was the only one who expressed remorse during the trial. 'If somebody after the war had explained to me what Katyn was, I would have never joined the security apparatus,' he said, referring to the site where thousands of Polish officers were slain by the Soviet secret police.
and other communist secret police officers from Kielce headquarters. This is a list of
leading functionaries from 1945 to 1989
Check the pages with dozens of personal ids.
ipn.gov.pl/ftp/twarze_kieleckiej_bezpieki/plansza_22.html
The majority are ethnic Poles, but some surnames are Jewish
Now I see that such archives have been made for other regions of Poland too. They are called Faces of .... (region) Secret Police
and first appeared in public exhibitions, now are on the Net.
gazetacodzienna.pl/sites/default/files/imagecache/full_scr_watermark/gc1/1362_2.jpg
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Some were sentenced for their deeds.
WARSAW, March 8 -- A Polish court Friday sentenced 12 elderly men, former functionaries of the communist-era state security
police, to prison terms of up to nine years for torturing political prisoners during the Stalinist era. Adam Humer, former
director of the investigation department of the Ministry of Public Security, was sentenced to nine years on a total of nine
charges, one of them that he caused the death of national leader Tadeusz Labedzki in 1946. 'This is the first such trial since
the end of World War II,' said Warsaw provincial court judge Tomasz Grochowicz in announcing the convictions and sentences. 'What
happened to Polish families is an unhealed wound. During the trial, there was unmasked an unprecedented method of terror and
lawlessness.' Grocowicz said altogether, 86 charges were proven against the 12 defendants, all in the 70s. Humer, 79, displayed
an arrogance during the trial in front of his accusers, and defended his actions. 'During the sharp struggle against the terror
of the underground, violations took place,' he said during his closing statement Tuesday, referring to the independent Polish
underground army (AK). 'I was told I stained the uniform of the Polish officer, but I know AK criminals who should have been in
the (defendants') box with me.' The other defendants, their sentences, and some actions they were found guilty of, were: Markus
Kac, 78, who specialized in breaking prisoners' teeth, six years; Tadeusz Szymanski, 72, who tortured farmers who refused to join
state farms, four years; Wieslaw Prutkowski, 72, who broke prisoners' teeth and forced them to run up and down stairs, six years;
Tadeusz Tomporski, 71, who pulled out prisoners' hair, seven years; Edmund Kwasek, 73, six years; Roman Laszkiewicz, 72, who used
an iron to burn prisoners' skin, eight years; Eugeniusz Chimczak, 75, who tortured women by plucking out their hair, eight years;
Mieczyslaw Kobylec, 71, who specialized in torturing women, four years; Jan Fugacewicz, 70, who dunked prisoners heads in the
toilet, three years, and Leon Midro, 71, who tortured priests, four years.
Defendant Jan Dabrowski, 74, nicknamed 'Brutal Jan' by prisoners, received a two-year suspended sentence. Kwasek was the only one who expressed remorse during the trial. 'If somebody after the war had explained to me what Katyn was, I would have never joined the security apparatus,' he said, referring to the site where thousands of Polish officers were slain by the Soviet secret
police. Several dozen of the defendants' former victims testified at their trial and sat in on the case, hurling insults at the
accused during breaks in the process. One witness, Jozefa Zycinski, said she was four months' pregnant when she was arrested, and
was tortured by Humer and Kwasek. 'I gave birth to a daughter in 1948 in the Kielce prison,' she said. 'The baby was blue when it
was born.'
Read more: www.upi.com/Archives/1996/03/08/Polish-court-sentences-Stalinists/2215826261200/#ixzz5dhxx5i8f
He was a member of political police in communist Poland. He used to run brutal interrogations of political prisoners in 1950s. Kwasek was the only one who repented for his deeds during a trial in 1990s.
pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Kwasek
Kwasek was the only one who expressed remorse during the trial. 'If somebody after the war had explained to me what Katyn was, I would have never joined the security apparatus,' he said, referring to the site where thousands of Polish officers were slain by the Soviet secret police.
and other communist secret police officers from Kielce headquarters. This is a list of
leading functionaries from 1945 to 1989
Check the pages with dozens of personal ids.
ipn.gov.pl/ftp/twarze_kieleckiej_bezpieki/plansza_22.html
The majority are ethnic Poles, but some surnames are Jewish
Now I see that such archives have been made for other regions of Poland too. They are called Faces of .... (region) Secret Police
and first appeared in public exhibitions, now are on the Net.
gazetacodzienna.pl/sites/default/files/imagecache/full_scr_watermark/gc1/1362_2.jpg
Some were sentenced for their deeds.
WARSAW, March 8 -- A Polish court Friday sentenced 12 elderly men, former functionaries of the communist-era state security
police, to prison terms of up to nine years for torturing political prisoners during the Stalinist era. Adam Humer, former
director of the investigation department of the Ministry of Public Security, was sentenced to nine years on a total of nine
charges, one of them that he caused the death of national leader Tadeusz Labedzki in 1946. 'This is the first such trial since
the end of World War II,' said Warsaw provincial court judge Tomasz Grochowicz in announcing the convictions and sentences. 'What
happened to Polish families is an unhealed wound. During the trial, there was unmasked an unprecedented method of terror and
lawlessness.' Grocowicz said altogether, 86 charges were proven against the 12 defendants, all in the 70s. Humer, 79, displayed
an arrogance during the trial in front of his accusers, and defended his actions. 'During the sharp struggle against the terror
of the underground, violations took place,' he said during his closing statement Tuesday, referring to the independent Polish
underground army (AK). 'I was told I stained the uniform of the Polish officer, but I know AK criminals who should have been in
the (defendants') box with me.' The other defendants, their sentences, and some actions they were found guilty of, were: Markus
Kac, 78, who specialized in breaking prisoners' teeth, six years; Tadeusz Szymanski, 72, who tortured farmers who refused to join
state farms, four years; Wieslaw Prutkowski, 72, who broke prisoners' teeth and forced them to run up and down stairs, six years;
Tadeusz Tomporski, 71, who pulled out prisoners' hair, seven years; Edmund Kwasek, 73, six years; Roman Laszkiewicz, 72, who used
an iron to burn prisoners' skin, eight years; Eugeniusz Chimczak, 75, who tortured women by plucking out their hair, eight years;
Mieczyslaw Kobylec, 71, who specialized in torturing women, four years; Jan Fugacewicz, 70, who dunked prisoners heads in the
toilet, three years, and Leon Midro, 71, who tortured priests, four years.
Defendant Jan Dabrowski, 74, nicknamed 'Brutal Jan' by prisoners, received a two-year suspended sentence. Kwasek was the only one who expressed remorse during the trial. 'If somebody after the war had explained to me what Katyn was, I would have never joined the security apparatus,' he said, referring to the site where thousands of Polish officers were slain by the Soviet secret
police. Several dozen of the defendants' former victims testified at their trial and sat in on the case, hurling insults at the
accused during breaks in the process. One witness, Jozefa Zycinski, said she was four months' pregnant when she was arrested, and
was tortured by Humer and Kwasek. 'I gave birth to a daughter in 1948 in the Kielce prison,' she said. 'The baby was blue when it
was born.'
Read more: www.upi.com/Archives/1996/03/08/Polish-court-sentences-Stalinists/2215826261200/#ixzz5dhxx5i8f