A CARD FROM THE CALENDAR - PIOTR PURC
During the World War II, from 1939 to 1944, the Lublin Castle housed the Nazi prison of the Security Police and Security Service. A total of around 40,000 people were imprisoned there, mainly members of the resistance movement. Some ordinary residents of surrounding villages, who had nothing to do with the resistance movement, also became prisoners. Piotr Purc, a husband and father of four children, lived nearby in Łagiewniki. He worked in the railway facilities for a living, but he also ran a small farm so that he could feed his family. It was in his field that he met a Jewish woman whom he had known, who bought a cow from him in order to have milk for her young children. This fact didn’t escape the informers. Police turned up at Piotr’s house moments after the transaction. The same day they transported him to the Castle prison, where he died in unexplained circumstances, two weeks after his arrest.
