Swietochlowice (Zgoda) camp
[1998] Israelis Protect Concentration Camp Boss
[1993] The Commandant[1994] Poles Review Postwar Treatment of Germans
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Swietochlowice was set up by the Soviet NKVD - forerunner of
the KGB - after the Red Army's liberation of southern Poland. The camp was later
handed over to the Polish secret service, the notorious UB.
Stalin's policy was to put Jews in charge of camps. Their experiences
during the Nazi Holocaust would mean that Germans and Poles held there could
expect little mercy. More than half of the 3,000 prisoners at Swietochlowice
were murdered or died there, according to PAP.
[1998] Israelis Protect
Concentration Camp Boss
In May, 1995, after a six-year investigation, the Provincial Commission (in
Katowice) for the Investigation of Crimes Against the Polish Nation, reported on
the concentration camp at Swietochlowice, first reported in An Eye for an Eye.
The Commission said,
"The camp commander, Salomon Morel,
was undoubtedly responsible for not preventing the mass deaths of at least 1,583
people. No matter what they were detained for, the use against them of methods
resembling those used in the concentration camps by the Nazis isn’t acceptable.
These were extermination methods. For them, the full responsibility rests with
Salomon Morel, who not only didn’t prevent them but who personally used them."
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