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A chilling thematic map documenting both the sites of armed resistance and locations of Nazi atrocities in south-central Poland during World War II, covering the Kielce and Radom voivodeships. Compiled in 1977 under the auspices of the Civic Committee for the Protection of Monuments of Struggle and Martyrdom in Kielce, the map comes from a series dedicated to Poland's Post-War memory politics.
The title and legend are printed in Polish, Russian, English, French, and German, emphasizing the international significance of the subject and the diversity of the intended audience. Symbols and color-coded keys distinguish between locations of armed actions (e.g., Polish and Soviet partisan activities, sabotage, and rail attacks), cemeteries of soldiers, and sites of Nazi crimes, including:
- Mass executions, coded by the estimated number of victims (from 1–20 to over 10,000);
- Concentration and extermination camp sub-sites;
- Destruction of villages and forced population expulsions;
- Labor camps, penal camps, and POW camps, with distinctions between camps for Polish and Soviet prisoners.
Kielce and Radom appear densely clustered with black stars and death camp notations, testifying to the region’s heavy role in the occupation's machinery of terror. The map functions as a spatial index to repression and resistance—pairing landscapes of violence with memorial cartography.
This map belongs to a series of wall charts produced in the Polish People’s Republic to promote memory culture, educate citizens, and underscore the legacy of wartime suffering. It is also an important visual record of geographic data assembled by the Główna Komisja Badania Zbrodni Hitlerowskich w Polsce (Main Commission for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes in Poland).
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