Stanisław Żemis – świadek zagłady Żydów w Łukowie
Stanisław Żemis – Witness to the Extermination of Jews in Łuków

Summary/Abstract: The most valuable testimony about the Holocaust in Łuków, a county town in the Lublin province, was written by a man known as Stanisław Żemiński. Nothing else was known about the author of that shocking and emphatic diary. No biographical details – where he came from, where he lived, what happened to him after the war – could be established. The author of this article discovers Żemiński’s true identity. His real name was Stanisław Żemis. As a young man he was a teacher and Janusz Korczak’s coworker. During the occupation he was in Łuków, where he was active in a cooperative and in the underground. After the liberation he became the first mayor of Siedlce. He then settled in Warsaw, where, after losing his sight, he became engaged in efforts to help the blind.

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