 Depending on the sources, there were between 2,115 (exhumed) and 2,255 persons, many of them of Jewish descent.About 20 % were women.Among those murdered here were Olympic medal winners Janusz Kusociński and Tomasz Stankiewicz, chess master Dawid Przepiórka, university professors Stefan Kopeć and Kazimierz Zakrzewski, politicians Henryk Brun, Helena Jaroszewicz, Mieczysław Niedziałkowski, Stanisław Piasecki, Maciej Rataj (Sejmmarschall) as well as mayors Mikołaj Bożym, Adolf Kutkowski, Mieczysław Markowski and Jan Pohoski.