Salomon Morel
[back] Swietochlowice camp
[Commandant of Swietochlowice
which 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.]
[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."
Corroboration
Dorota Boriczek, a camp survivor, remembers Salomon Morel as a barbaric and cruel man who, with his colleagues, was responsible for many killings of inmates. "I knew Morel in the camp. He was a very brutal man. He was young then. He would come in at night. We could hear the cries of the men then. They would beat them and throw the bodies out of the window," Mrs Boriczek, now 68 andliving in Ludswigberg, Germany, told The Independent. [1998] Israelis Protect Concentration Camp Boss
