Kazimierz Sakowicz

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Gravestone of Sakowicz and others

Kazimierz Sakowicz (1899–1944) was a Polish journalist. A witness to the prolonged Ponary massacre, he chronicled much of it in his diary, published in English as Ponary Diary, which became one of the best known testaments to that atrocity of the Second World War, in which about 100 000 Jews, Poles and Russians were murdered by Germans and Lithuanian collaborators.

He was an

Ponary
district during the German occupation and chronicled events from July 11, 1941, to October 25, 1943.

On 5 July 1944, while cycling to Wilno,

Armia Krajowa).[2]

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