82 anniversary of the hanging by Nazi occupiers of 10 workers from the Bank Huta in Dąbrowa Górnicza. The diggers celebrated the memory of the murdered.
As reported by Dawid Hajder (Stow. Possessors of the Polish Kombatants II WŚ) – "On 12 June 1942 10 employees of the Bank Hut are hanged by the German occupier during public execution. The Gestapo arrested 10 workers in the Bank Hut for sabotage in the production of sheets utilized to manufacture submarines. This event commemorates the Memorial of 10 Hanging from the Bank. The ceremony was besides attended by delegations of: Associations of Inheritors of Polish Kombatants of planet War II, KPP, editors of “Facts and Analysis”, MZ “Gołonogóg”, Polish thought Clubs and residents of the city.
List of 10 hanged:
Marceli Baltyn
Václav Bochenek
Edward Gruchała
Boleslaw the King
Bolesław Kucharski
Joseph Maro
Eugenius Puz
Valentines of Grey
Roman Teper
Mr Francis Wójcik
From the pages of past (Brochura published on the occasion of 70 anniversary of these events by eyewitness of Marian Indelak's execution):
"12 June 1942 Nazis executed publically by hanging 10 dabrowiaks, employees of the Bank Huta. They chose the Planty territory where the increasing poplars utilized to build gallows. Among the victims was Scout activist Eugeniusz Puz, whom the Nazis took from the home due to the fact that his father, a steel individual at the time, was not present.
Lost metallurgists, as trade union activists, have shown large sensitivity to the life problems of labour companions. During the period of the business of terror, they were determined to bear severe consequences for their activities, their sense of social duty, their determined will to aid those in need, were stronger than the dangers... On June 12, 1942, at 4:00 p.m., during the execution, we gave way to the unfinished cry “Let the Pol.” And we, along with the convict families, surrounded by a gestapo cordon with device guns pointed at us, suppressed despair and pain...
Lost metallurgists together with thousands of another patriots, fighting and the victim of life recorded the most beautiful and sublime chapters of Polish past during the Nazi occupation.
Eliza Peanut spoke so beautifully of those who died for freedom and justice: ... people loving ideas and dying for them These bells call the sleepy to temples ...”
“ 10 HURTS ”
There were only 10 trade unionists from the “Bank” workshop taken from 1 of the Dąbrowa steelworks. They were the ones who fought for freedom, O people,
O our bread, and O independent bread!
They were all ten, beaten, tied up after 5 and were pushed in the mouth of cars and then – Bedzin, Dabrowa's last life station
He's been rocking over everybody like a communicative that's already full of gwat.
And there were metallurgists- patriots ready for everything
At the bare feet of 10 gallows and silence – immoveable – due to the fact that the conviction was made only poplar branches were firmly bent due to the fact that the weight of the heroes' bodies was borne and we powerless – clenched fists
Oh look, Dabrowa, these are the ones for whom past will avenge
They like the relentless – they taught us how to live, how to fight, how to love life,
And give your life so that your boy and grandson remember...
We will never forget you metallurgists You who are faithful to ideas and your country have died like martyrs.
Your bravery and your conflict for noble purposes They've been inscribed in the most beautiful and sublime chapters that there are so many in Dabrow's history
About the wind this fact to the surviving carry present the memory of heroic metalworks Hello! Hello! Hello!”
Gathered in front of the monument in the streams of rain, they mentioned murdered Poles. 1 associate pointed out that “they were killed for being Poles,” he added, “szovinism, Nazism and militarism return hidden under the mask of liberalism and insanely understood tolerance”
Zenon Nowacki
