Olkusz
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Olkusz is a town in southern Poland with 36,607 inhabitants. It is the capital of Olkusz County in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship.
Rynek (Market Square) with the Saint Andrew Basilica and town hall
Early 20th-century view of the Rynek (Market Square)
The Bloody Wednesday Olkusz 1940. German soldier guarding prone men of Olkusz on 31 July. The picture has been described as "known to everyone in Olkusz".
Defensive walls
Henryk Mandelbaum
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Henryk Mandelbaum was a Polish Holocaust survivor. He was one of the prisoners in the Sonderkommando KL Auschwitz-Birkenau in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp who worked in the crematory. Onl
Olkusz
…Antoni Kocjan, Polish war hero and famous glider engineer Henryk Mandelbaum, noted Polish survivor of the Holocaust Tadeusz Rydzyk, Roman Catholic priest and Redemptorist…
Sonderkommando Heryk Mandelbaum & translator