Grojanowski report

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The Grojanowski Report is a report on the mass murder of Polish Jews by the German occupying forces in the Chelmno extermination camp , written by Szlamek Bajler under the pseudonym Jakob Grojanowski in 1942. In January / February 1942 the prisoner Bajler escaped from there together with Rabbi Yehoshua Moshe Aharonson and he reached the Warsaw ghetto . There he reported in Yiddish to the group of historians Oneg Shabbat around Emanuel Ringelblum in detail. The report then created was smuggled out of the ghetto and came across the Polish resistance to the Polish government in exile in London (June 1942).

He described the capture of Jews in Izbica Kujawska on January 6th and the entire extermination process in the concentration camp: suffocation in the gas vans, the removal of the corpses, the prisoner's detention conditions and his escape. Oneg Shabbat and Bajler wrote the report in Polish and German and sent the Polish version to London.

Bajler then fled on to Zamość . From there he wrote Emanuel Ringelblum's report about another extermination camp , the Belzec concentration camp . A few days after this letter, around the end of April 1942, Szlamek Bajler was arrested in a raid, deported and himself murdered in Belzec. According to Yad Vashem , the Grojanowski Report is in the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw and a copy in Jerusalem (JM / 2713).

His report completed the information available to the Polish government-in-exile and the Allies about the Holocaust of the Germans against Jews. a. through the reports of Witold Pilecki (from October 1940 he sent reports from the Auschwitz concentration camp to Warsaw and from March 1941 they went to London) and from Jan Karski (spring 1942). This led u. a. on the Allied Declaration against the bestial policy of cold-blooded extermination of the Jews of Europe of December 1942.

See also: Contemporary Knowledge of the Holocaust

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Article Szlamek Bajler www.deathcamps.org (Engl.)
  2. ↑ Wiesenthal Center ( Memento of the original from October 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org
  3. ↑ Chelmno, Yad Vashem (PDF; 33 kB)
  4. ^ Martin Gilbert : The Holocaust - The Jewish Tragedy. William Collins Sons & Co. Limited, London, 1986
    Lucjan Dobroszycki (Ed.): The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto 1941–1944 , Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 1984 (both English)
  5. ↑ Yad Vashem, Polish text version (PDF; 183 kB)
  6. ↑ There is a translation into Ivrit by Elisheva Shaul: Taking of Testimony from the Forced Undertaker Jakob Grojanowski, Izbice-Kolo-Chelmno. In: Yalkut Moreshet 35 (April 1983), pp. 101-122.