Karol Estreicher Jr. in 1937 was the initiator of hiding the treasures of the Jagiellonian University in the basement of the Collegium Novum. Photo: NAC / IKC, catalogue number 1-N-159
Jerzy Żarnecki. As a young assistant at the Art History Department of the Jagiellonian University, he was participating and witnessing the hiding of the Jagiellonian University treasures at the Collegium Novum. Photo: photo permission granted by James Rivington of The British Academy: Memoir of George Żarnecki, published in November 2015 under the Creative Commons license, CC BY-SA, Wikipedia
Adam Bochnak (portrait from around 1950). In 1939, he hid the treasures of the Jagiellonian University in the basement of the Collegium Novum. Photo: Stanisław Kolowca, Public domain, Wikipedia
Michal Orkisz. Retired and trusted janitor of the Art History Department of the Jagiellonian University, who, together with Bochnak and Żarnecki, participated in hiding the UJ treasures. Photo from the Archives of the Jagiellonian University. Photo: Artur Wójcik
Who hid the treasuries of the Jagiellonian University, who opened the hiding place?