MUW Kraków: 80 years ago, the president of Kraków, Stanisław Klimecki, was murdered
On December 11, 1942, in the Niepołomice Forest, the Germans shot over 1,000 people, mainly from Kraków’s intelligentsia. Among the murdered was the hosts of the mayor of Krakow, Stanisław Klimecki. Today, on the 80th anniversary of this elegant ceremony on innocent people, in a place “stained with blood” – as the inscription on the monument says – a tribute was paid to the murdered man.
In real performances at Kozie Górki, the first vice-voivode of Lesser Poland, Ryszard Pagacz.
– Kozie Górki to a place special for the history of Krakow and Niepołomice. Here, the Nazis murdered President Stanisław Klimecki, who headed Krakow in the sudden outbreak of World War II. To a place that has gone down in history in a way that can never be forgotten. Today we pay tribute to the brutally murdered. This is our moral attitude. Honor their memory! – says Ryszard Pagacz, deputy voivode of Lesser Poland.
After the joint participants, they went to the Royal Castle in Niepołomice, where an exhibition dedicated to the victims shot in Kozie Górki was organized.
Stanisław Klimecki was removed from power by the occupant. He was arrested three times. He was imprisoned in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. In Krakow he worked as a lawyer. He was buried in a mass grave in Kozi Górki.