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DescriptionThe Bloody Wednesday Olkusz 1940.jpg	The Bloody Wednesday in Olkusz, German-occupied Poland, 1940. Polish and Jewish hostages lying prone in the market square.
Date	1940
Source	The book of Tadeusz Mazur, Jerzy Tomaszewski, Stanisław Wrzos-Glinka "Cierpienie i walka narodu polskiego, 1939-1945", Zarząd Główny Związku Bojowników o Wolność i Demokrację, Warszawa, 1958, page 29
Author	According to the description in the book, one of these authors: Stefan Bałuk, Władysław Choma, Tadeusz Kinowski, Stanisław Kopf, Bolesław Malmurowicz, Stefan Józef Stryjniak, Dawid Szmulewski, Jerzy Tomaszewski, Ludwik Wajner

Licensing

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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current	16:46, 2 March 2014	1,812 × 1,215 (1.85 MB)	Dreamcatcher25	slightly bigger photo
	14:23, 17 June 2007	640 × 449 (189 KB)	Spetsedisa
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	12:51, 17 June 2007	640 × 406 (192 KB)	Spetsedisa
	22:35, 25 April 2007	1,100 × 698 (620 KB)	Spetsedisa	The Bloody Wednesday in Olkusz, German-occupied Poland, 1939. Source: "Bataliony Chłopskie" Ludowa Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza, Warsaw, 1964, page 96-97 ------------------------------------------------------------- Krwawa środa w Olkuszu, Polska okupow