August Emil Fieldorf was born in Cracow 125 years ago. This officer served in Polish legions under Józef Pilsudski and then joined the Polish Military Organisation. During Polish-Soviet War he took part in liberating Dyneburg, Żytomierz, and victorious Kiev offensive.

After September 1939, Fieldorf joined Polish Armed Forces in the West. In 1940, he returned to Occupied Poland as the first emissary of the Polish Governor-in-exile under the nom de guerre “Nil”. Involved with the Home Army, he headed Kedyw, its special operations executive.

When Warsaw Uprising collapsed, he was engaged with Anticommunist resistance. Arrested in Nov. 1950, “Nil” refused to collaborate with the communists. Following brutal investigation and torture personally supervised by Józef Rozanski,(Goldberg) he was sentenced to death and executed on 24 Feb. 1953.

As with him and many other heroic Polish underground fighters he was not killed by ethnic Poles.

‎Perpetrators of the death of the Head of Kedyw KG AK, late Gen. Emil Fieldorf “Nil”:

• Witold Gatner
• Alicja Graff
• Pesa Frydlender
• Benjamin Wajsblech
• Fajga Danielak
• Igor Andreyev
• Gustaw Auscaler
• Emil Merz
• Maria Zand
• Mojżesz Buttermilk
• Józef Rozanski