Salomon Morel

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Salomon Morel , also Solomon Morel or Schlomo Morel (born November 15, 1919 in Garbów , Powiat Lubelski , † February 14, 2007 in Tel-Aviv ) was a Polish Jew and war criminal .

Life

Morel's family fell victim to Polish collaborators during the German occupation of Poland in World War II . From February to November 1945 he was in command of the Polish labor camp Zgoda in Schwientochlowitz ( Polish: Świętochłowice ) in Upper Silesia (then placed under Polish administration, today part of Poland) and a member of the Stalinist secret police Urząd Bezpieczeństwa . He was responsible for the murder of more than 1,500 captured German civilians who had initially remained in their Upper Silesian places of residence at the time of the expulsion of the German population, but also for the murders of Polish civilians.

When he became aware, Morel fled to Israel in 1992 . He was wanted by the Polish government for war crimes and crimes against humanity . Poland requested his extradition in 1998 and 2005, but Israel refused to do so on the grounds that the crimes were statute-barred and that Morel was old and sick. From 1996 a criminal case against him was running in Poland.

swell

  • Congressional Record, Senate, Vol. 92, August 2, 1946 (Evacuation and Concentration Camps in Silesia), Washington National Archives
  • Parliamentary Debates, House of Commons, Fifth Series, Vol. 413, London

literature

  • John Sack : An Eye for an Eye: The Story of Jews Who Sought Revenge for the Holocaust. 4th edition. John Sack, sl 2000, ISBN 0-9675691-0-9 .
  • John Sack: An eye for an eye. The story of Jews seeking revenge for the Holocaust. Kabel, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-8225-0339-8 .
  • Gerhard Gruschka: Zgoda - a place of horror . ars una, Neuried 1995, ISBN 3-89391-604-0 .
  • Alfred M. de Zayas : The Anglo-Americans and the expulsion of the Germans. Prehistory, course, consequences. 7th edition expanded and updated by the author. Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1988, ISBN 3-548-33099-1 ( Ullstein Buch - Zeitgeschichte 33099), (At the same time: Göttingen., Univ., Diss., 1977).
  • Obóz Pracy w Świętochłowicach w 1945 roku. Documenty. Ed. Adam Dziurok. Institute for National Remembrance (IPN) , Katowice 2002.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Response by the State of Israel to the application for the extradition of Salomon Morel ... Instytut Pamięci Narodowej (Institute for National Remembrance), accessed on March 20, 2018
  2. ↑ What people did to people
personal data
SURNAME Morel, Solomon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Morel, Solomon; Morel, Schlomo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish Jew and war criminal
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Garbów , Powiat Lubelski
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 2007
Place of death Tel-Aviv