Diamand's Gang

The Second World War - Organisations

Diamand's Gang was a group of Jewish-Nazi collaborators who worked for the Gestapo. With impunity, under the protection of their superiors, they escaped death sentences from the hands of the underground, thanks to many semi-open or well-hidden hideouts. However, the base of the gang was an apartment located at 6 Sławkowska Street, which was assigned to Diamand by the Gestapo.

Names of all gang members has never been figured out. With time, its connections and contacts blurred in the circles of the occupational underworld of collaborators and traitors. It is difficult to establish who belonged to the gang and who cooperated with it only occasionally.

The elite of the gang were:

  • Józef Diamand (or Maurycy Diamant) - sometimes he were using the surname Grocholski
  • Artur Appel - he was using the false name Machalski,
  • Julian Appel - the brother of the above-mentioned, used the pseudonym "Julek" and the surname Jerzy Konczyński
  • Paweł Gottlieb - used papers in the name of Józef Ozorowicz,
  • Birner - one of the links between the gang and the Gestapo, pseudonyms: Grüner, Mieczysław Birkman, Skarżyński or Skrzyński,
  • Jodłowski,
  • Karolewski,
  • Kusek,
  • Żabiński,
  • Mieczysław Bielecki, Bilewski or Bielawski, he was using the pseudonyms "Mieczysław" and "Baron Mitko",
  • Stefania (or Genowefa) Brandtstatter - "beautiful Krysia", "Anita", she also used the name Marta Dworzak
  • Zofia Przybyś
  • Julia Naczowska
  • Stefania Dworzak

The confidants were using false documents and all sorts of fake names. So it is difficult to say whether these were their real surnames.

Diamand's Gang was unraveled relatively quickly. It was possible to figure out a number of it's hideouts and to some extent to work out the personalitis and connections of it's members. A decision was quickly made to liquidate the gang, most of whose members were already sentenced to death by underground courts.

SOURCES
Stanisław Dąbrowa-Kostka, W okupowanym Krakowie
http://www.kedyw.info/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_D%C4%85browa-Kostka_(1972),_Szajki_Diamanda_i_S%C5%82ani#cite_ref-0

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