The Home Army Museum houses a permanent exhibition telling the story of General Emil Fieldorf ‘Nil’. The exhibition was prepared on the 130th anniversary of the general's birth (he was born in Krakow on 20th March 1895) and is devoted both to his private and military life.
A separate part of the presentation tells the story of the general's fate in the communist reality between 1945 and 1953, with particular stress on his arrest by the Security Service, trial and death sentence. General Emil Fieldorf, pseudonym ‘Nil’, was a soldier of the Polish Legions, an officer in the Polish Army, a participant in the Polish-Bolshevik war and the September 1939 campaign. During the occupation, he commanded Kedyw (a Home Army unit) and then served as Deputy Commander of the Home Army and created an underground organisation ‘NIE’. Arrested by the communist authorities in 1950, he was sentenced to death and executed three years later. Since 2001, Krakow's Home Army Museum has borne his name.
