Image: Poles arrested in Gdynia September 1939

Description: Poles from Gdynia arrested by German occupants on first days of Second World War. During so called Säuberungsaktionen (“cleaning actions”), conduced in Gdynia between 14 and 30 September 1939, almost 2500 Poles were arrested and imprisonment. Many of them were later murdered in Piaśnica forest or in Stutthof concentration camp.
Title: Poles arrested in Gdynia September 1939
Credit: Konrad Ciechanowski [et al.]: Stutthof: hitlerowski obóz koncentracyjny. Warszawa: Interpress, 1988
Author: Unknown authorUnknown author
Permission: This photograph is in the public domain because according to the Art. 3 of copyright law of March 29, 1926 of the Republic of Poland and Art. 2 of copyright law of July 10, 1952 of the People's Republic of Poland, all photographs by Polish photographers (or published for the first time in Poland or simultaneously in Poland and abroad) published without a clear copyright notice before the law was changed on May 23, 1994 are assumed to be in the public domain in Poland. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it meets three requirements: it was first published outside the United States (and not published in the U.S. within 30 days), it was first published before 1 March 1989 without copyright notice or before 1964 without copyright renewal or before the source country established copyright relations with the United States, it was in the public domain in its home country (Poland) on the URAA date (1 January 1996).
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