Stanisław Zarakowski

Zarakowski was a Communist party advisor to MON along with General Roman Romkowski (Natan Grinszpan-Kikiel from Moscow) and a few other officials. He was also the man to order the presiding judge to sentence Capt. Witold Pilecki, the "hero of Auschwitz" to the death penalty, according to IPN institute. Zarakowski was fired from his government job in 1956 during the Polish October revolution and his surviving victims were released.

Zarakowski was the main prosecutor in various Stalinist trials including the infamous Trial of the Generals in 1951 against commanders of the Armia Krajowa including General Stanisław Tatar. The trial resulted in over 20 death sentences against high-ranking officers (later classified as court murders by the Institute of National Remembrance). Zarakowski conducted the trial of Kazimierz Pużak and other politicians of the Polish People's Party (PSL) shortly before the so-called people's referendum of 1946, as well as the Stalinist show trial of the Roman Curia of Kraków. The pronounced death sentences were not enforced although Father Fudali died in unexplained circumstances. Throughout the 1950s the Ministry of Public Security with Dir. Julia Brystiger (née Prajs) at the helm of the 5th Department, incarcerated and routinely tortured Roman Catholic priests investigated for "treason". Before 1953 already, 37 of them were killed including 54 monks.

General/Private Stanisław Zarakowski (born 7 November 1907 in Svolna now Belarus – died 11 April 1998 in Warsaw, Poland) was a chief military prosecutor in the People's Republic of Poland; famous for his role in several trials of Polish Underground State officers, which resulted in many death sentences.