Adam Humer
Deceased Person
1908 – 2001
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Who was Adam Humer?
Adam Humer was a high-ranking official of the notorious Ministry of Public Security of Poland. Known for particular brutality and barbarity, Humer tortured political prisoners whom he interrogated during the 1940s and 1950s. Arrested in 1994, in March 1996 Humer and 11 other functionaries of the UB were convicted as Poland's first post-independence Stalinist criminals for their role in the routine torture and execution of members of the Polish Democratic Underground during the Stalinist era. Sentenced to nine years in prison, he died during a break in sentence.
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