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Michał Siedlecki (1873–1940)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 April 2009
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On 6 November 1939, shortly after the invasion of Poland, the professors at the Jagellonian University of Cracow were summoned to attend a lecture on “Nazi Science”, to be delivered by a high German official. Those who obeyed the order were arrested. The charge brought against them was, in brief, that they had been attempting to fulfil their duties at the University, and were thereby guilty of striving to keep alight the flame of Polish national culture. For these offences the unfortunate professors—some of them old and feeble— were imprisoned and robbed of their property. After being jailed in Cracow they were taken to a convict prison at Breslau and thence to a concentration camp at Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg (near Berlin)—where, of course, many of them died.
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