"1943 to 1945"

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28 November 2016

Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni arrives to the opening of the permanent exhibition 'Between two Stools: The History of Italian Military Internees 1943-1945' at the Documentation Center on Nazi Forced Labour in Berlin Schoeneweide, Germany on November 28, 2016.

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28 November 2016

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (L) and former internee Michele Motagano (R) arrive to the opening of the permanent exhibition 'Between two Stools: The History of Italian Military Internees 1943-1945' at the Documentation Center on Nazi Forced Labour in Berlin Schoeneweide, Germany on November 28, 2016.

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28 November 2016

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (R) and Italian Ambassador Pietro Benassi (L) are pictured as they arrive to the opening of the permanent exhibition 'Between two Stools: The History of Italian Military Internees 1943-1945' at the Documentation Center on Nazi Forced Labour in Berlin Schoeneweide, Germany on November 28, 2016.

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28 November 2016

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (C-L) and his Italian counterpart Paolo Gentiloni (C-R) arrive to open the permanent exhibition 'Between two Stools: The History of Italian Military Internees 1943-1945' at the Documentation Center on Nazi Forced Labour in Berlin Schoeneweide, Germany on November 28, 2016.

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28 November 2016

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (C-R), his Italian counterpart Paolo Gentiloni (C-L) together with former internee Michele Motagano (C) arrive to open the permanent exhibition 'Between two Stools: The History of Italian Military Internees 1943-1945' at the Documentation Center on Nazi Forced Labour in Berlin Schoeneweide, Germany on November 28, 2016.

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28 November 2016

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (C-R), his Italian counterpart Paolo Gentiloni (C-L) together with former internee Michele Motagano (C) arrive to open the permanent exhibition 'Between two Stools: The History of Italian Military Internees 1943-1945' at the Documentation Center on Nazi Forced Labour in Berlin Schoeneweide, Germany on November 28, 2016.

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#1046737

12 February 2016

Kazimierz Ptasinski pictured on the eve of the 71st Anniversary of the Camp Liberation, as he returned to Oswiecim (Auschwitz) on Monday, January 26, 2016. We said Goodbye to one of our heros of the resistance. On 5 February 2016 at the age of 95, died Kazimierz Ptasinski. He was born in Libiaz on 19 February 1921. On the eve of the 71st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, he participated in the historic session organised by the Auschwitz Museum, and dedicated to the prisoners of the second transport. Kazimierz Ptasinski (Polish: Ptasiński) during the WWII lived in that village and worked in the coal mine "Brzeszcze-Jawischowitz". He collaborated with a group of Polish Socialist Party, who worked at Auschwitz . After the unification he became a soldier of AK branch 'Sosienki' 9a group of 50-80 members), active between 1943-1945, with all activities concentretaed primarily at helping prisoners of the German Nazi Camp Auschwitz. The group had plans to strike together with other troops from the area of ​​the General Government, if the Germans began to liquidate the prisoners. The group helped at least 45 refugees from 144, whose escaped, among them mainly Jews and Soviet prisoners of war. Kazimierz Ptasinski was arrested on October 27, 1944, during a failed attempt to take over the camp next fugitives. But soon, he managed to escape from the Gestapo headquarters in Auschwitz. Other participants were arested and hanged in the camp on December 30, 1944. He was the hiding in the village of Tenczynek, under another name, until the end of the war. After the war, Kazimierz Ptasinski was persecuted by the secret police (Polish: Urzad Bezpieczenstwa). He worked in the coal mine 'Brzeszcze' and the Forest District of Chrzanów. In the free Poland, Ptasinski was appointed to the rank of lieutenant. In 2011, for his contribution in saving human life and for helping the prisoners of Auschwitz, he received the Officer's Cross of the Order of the Rebirth (Phot

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12 February 2016

Kazimierz Ptasinski pictured on the eve of the 71st Anniversary of the Camp Liberation, as he returned to Oswiecim (Auschwitz) on Monday, January 26, 2016. We said Goodbye to one of our heros of the resistance. On 5 February 2016 at the age of 95, died Kazimierz Ptasinski. He was born in Libiaz on 19 February 1921. On the eve of the 71st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, he participated in the historic session organised by the Auschwitz Museum, and dedicated to the prisoners of the second transport. Kazimierz Ptasinski (Polish: Ptasiński) during the WWII lived in that village and worked in the coal mine "Brzeszcze-Jawischowitz". He collaborated with a group of Polish Socialist Party, who worked at Auschwitz . After the unification he became a soldier of AK branch 'Sosienki' 9a group of 50-80 members), active between 1943-1945, with all activities concentretaed primarily at helping prisoners of the German Nazi Camp Auschwitz. The group had plans to strike together with other troops from the area of ​​the General Government, if the Germans began to liquidate the prisoners. The group helped at least 45 refugees from 144, whose escaped, among them mainly Jews and Soviet prisoners of war. Kazimierz Ptasinski was arrested on October 27, 1944, during a failed attempt to take over the camp next fugitives. But soon, he managed to escape from the Gestapo headquarters in Auschwitz. Other participants were arested and hanged in the camp on December 30, 1944. He was the hiding in the village of Tenczynek, under another name, until the end of the war. After the war, Kazimierz Ptasinski was persecuted by the secret police (Polish: Urzad Bezpieczenstwa). He worked in the coal mine 'Brzeszcze' and the Forest District of Chrzanów. In the free Poland, Ptasinski was appointed to the rank of lieutenant. In 2011, for his contribution in saving human life and for helping the prisoners of Auschwitz, he received the Officer's Cross of the Order of t

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#1046748

12 February 2016

Kazimierz Ptasinski pictured on the eve of the 71st Anniversary of the Camp Liberation, as he returned to Oswiecim (Auschwitz) on Monday, January 26, 2016. We said Goodbye to one of our heros of the resistance. On 5 February 2016 at the age of 95, died Kazimierz Ptasinski. He was born in Libiaz on 19 February 1921. On the eve of the 71st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, he participated in the historic session organised by the Auschwitz Museum, and dedicated to the prisoners of the second transport. Kazimierz Ptasinski (Polish: Ptasiński) during the WWII lived in that village and worked in the coal mine "Brzeszcze-Jawischowitz". He collaborated with a group of Polish Socialist Party, who worked at Auschwitz . After the unification he became a soldier of AK branch 'Sosienki' 9a group of 50-80 members), active between 1943-1945, with all activities concentretaed primarily at helping prisoners of the German Nazi Camp Auschwitz. The group had plans to strike together with other troops from the area of ​​the General Government, if the Germans began to liquidate the prisoners. The group helped at least 45 refugees from 144, whose escaped, among them mainly Jews and Soviet prisoners of war. Kazimierz Ptasinski was arrested on October 27, 1944, during a failed attempt to take over the camp next fugitives. But soon, he managed to escape from the Gestapo headquarters in Auschwitz. Other participants were arested and hanged in the camp on December 30, 1944. He was the hiding in the village of Tenczynek, under another name, until the end of the war. After the war, Kazimierz Ptasinski was persecuted by the secret police (Polish: Urzad Bezpieczenstwa). He worked in the coal mine 'Brzeszcze' and the Forest District of Chrzanów. In the free Poland, Ptasinski was appointed to the rank of lieutenant. In 2011, for his contribution in saving human life and for helping the prisoners of Auschwitz, he received the Officer's Cross of the Order of the Rebirth (Phot

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12 February 2016

Kazimierz Ptasinski pictured on the eve of the 71st Anniversary of the Camp Liberation, as he returned to Oswiecim (Auschwitz) on Monday, January 26, 2016. We said Goodbye to one of our heros of the resistance. On 5 February 2016 at the age of 95, died Kazimierz Ptasinski. He was born in Libiaz on 19 February 1921. On the eve of the 71st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, he participated in the historic session organised by the Auschwitz Museum, and dedicated to the prisoners of the second transport. Kazimierz Ptasinski (Polish: Ptasiński) during the WWII lived in that village and worked in the coal mine "Brzeszcze-Jawischowitz". He collaborated with a group of Polish Socialist Party, who worked at Auschwitz . After the unification he became a soldier of AK branch 'Sosienki' 9a group of 50-80 members), active between 1943-1945, with all activities concentretaed primarily at helping prisoners of the German Nazi Camp Auschwitz. The group had plans to strike together with other troops from the area of ​​the General Government, if the Germans began to liquidate the prisoners. The group helped at least 45 refugees from 144, whose escaped, among them mainly Jews and Soviet prisoners of war. Kazimierz Ptasinski was arrested on October 27, 1944, during a failed attempt to take over the camp next fugitives. But soon, he managed to escape from the Gestapo headquarters in Auschwitz. Other participants were arested and hanged in the camp on December 30, 1944. He was the hiding in the village of Tenczynek, under another name, until the end of the war. After the war, Kazimierz Ptasinski was persecuted by the secret police (Polish: Urzad Bezpieczenstwa). He worked in the coal mine 'Brzeszcze' and the Forest District of Chrzanów. In the free Poland, Ptasinski was appointed to the rank of lieutenant. In 2011, for his contribution in saving human life and for helping the prisoners of Auschwitz, he received the Officer's Cross of the Order of the Rebirth (Phot

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12 February 2016

Kazimierz Ptasinski pictured on the eve of the 71st Anniversary of the Camp Liberation, as he returned to Oswiecim (Auschwitz) on Monday, January 26, 2016. We said Goodbye to one of our heros of the resistance. On 5 February 2016 at the age of 95, died Kazimierz Ptasinski. He was born in Libiaz on 19 February 1921. On the eve of the 71st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, he participated in the historic session organised by the Auschwitz Museum, and dedicated to the prisoners of the second transport. Kazimierz Ptasinski (Polish: Ptasiński) during the WWII lived in that village and worked in the coal mine "Brzeszcze-Jawischowitz". He collaborated with a group of Polish Socialist Party, who worked at Auschwitz . After the unification he became a soldier of AK branch 'Sosienki' 9a group of 50-80 members), active between 1943-1945, with all activities concentretaed primarily at helping prisoners of the German Nazi Camp Auschwitz. The group had plans to strike together with other troops from the area of ​​the General Government, if the Germans began to liquidate the prisoners. The group helped at least 45 refugees from 144, whose escaped, among them mainly Jews and Soviet prisoners of war. Kazimierz Ptasinski was arrested on October 27, 1944, during a failed attempt to take over the camp next fugitives. But soon, he managed to escape from the Gestapo headquarters in Auschwitz. Other participants were arested and hanged in the camp on December 30, 1944. He was the hiding in the village of Tenczynek, under another name, until the end of the war. After the war, Kazimierz Ptasinski was persecuted by the secret police (Polish: Urzad Bezpieczenstwa). He worked in the coal mine 'Brzeszcze' and the Forest District of Chrzanów. In the free Poland, Ptasinski was appointed to the rank of lieutenant. In 2011, for his contribution in saving human life and for helping the prisoners of Auschwitz, he received the Officer's Cross of the Order of the Rebirth (Phot

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