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On the night of 2–3 August, five survivors who were hiding in the kitchen escaped the monastery. Four
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responsible for disposal of bodies covering Mokotów streets. When his team reached the ransacked monastery, fr. Pawelczyk was able to convince his fellow prisoners that it will be easier to wall up the room full with the bodies, than move the bodies and bury them somewhere else. It made possible to
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Around 40 Poles were murdered in the Jesuit monastery on
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After the war, remnants of the victims were put in four coffins and buried under the floor of the same room in the monastery's basement, where massacre took place. Father superior Edward
Kosibowicz, and fr. Leonard Hrynaszkiewicz – Jesuit priest who was killed during the uprising at
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etc.) and finally led to the small room in the basement, which was previously occupied by a coachman employed in the monastery. When all Poles were gathered in the coachman's room, SS soldiers hurled
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troops. The monastery and its inhabitants suffered no harm on that day. Over a dozen Polish civilians, surprised by the outbreak of the uprising away from their homes, took refuge on its premises.
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SS soldiers conducted a quick search but were unable to find anything confirming the allegations. Shortly afterwards, some of them left the monastery, taking with them Father
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