Igo Sym
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Karol Juliusz "Igo" Sym was a Polish actor and collaborator with Nazi Germany. He was killed in Warsaw by members of the Polish resistance movement.
Sym about 1937
On film set of Heimkehr, 1941
SS-Gruppenführer Paul Moder announcement of execution of "a number of detainees" in retaliation of death of Igo Sym.
Palmiry massacre
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The Palmiry massacre was a series of mass executions carried out by Nazi German forces, during World War II, near the village of Palmiry in the Kampinos Forest northwest of Warsaw.
Igo Sym
…teachers, physicians, lawyers and actors. The population of Warsaw was given three days to find Sym's murderers. As nobody was found, on 11 March in Palmiry, 21 hostages were executed. Several actors were also arrested and sent to Auschwitz, among them such notable figures as directors Stefan Jaracz and Leon Schiller. Vampires of…
Polish women led to mass execution in a forest near Palmiry, 1940
Adolf Hitler attends a Wehrmacht victory parade in Warsaw. 5 October 1939
Pawiak prison in Warsaw
“Glade of death” near the Palmiry. Post-war photography