Edward Tomiak was 21 years old during the Uprising. He does not appear in the insurgents’ indexes. The Tomiak family came from Poznań, where his father, Adam Tomiak, ran the “Atom” print house. In 1939, they were evicted by the Germans to the terrains of the General Government. The family then lived in Warsaw, at 4 Muranowska Street. It was from the window of this building, where Edward Tomiak took his photographs of the Uprising in action at the wall of the Ghetto. After the Uprising, along with his brother most likely, Tomiak left the city with the rest of the city civilians to a transit camp in Pruszków. From there, they were transported to a concentration camp in Auschwitz. The last letter he wrote from Auschwitz was to his aunt in Poznań in autumn 1944. He later was sent to Melk, a branch of the concentration camps in Mauthausen in Upper Austria. As it is written in the statement of former inmate, attached to the photo album, Edward Tomiak died on 7 April 1945, most likely from general exhaustion.
