Morel, Solomon

Born in a baker's family. He worked at a family bakery, then a salesman in Lodz . After the outbreak of war, he returned to the village to his family. He was hiding with his family to avoid being sent to the ghetto. Joseph Tkachuk was harboring the Morel family. At the beginning of 1942, together with his brother, he joined the partisan detachment of the Guard Lyudova . In 1944, after the liberation of part of Polish territory by the Red Army, he joined the Ministry of Public Security of Poland . On March 15, 1945, he was appointed commandant of the Zgoda labor camp (formerly one of the Auschwitz sub- camps ). The camp contained about 6 thousand people, mostly Volkswagen , including women and children, but also Poles. In Camp Zgoda, 1,695 people died from an epidemic of typhoid, starvation, and beatings. At the end of 1945, the camp was closed.

In 1946, Morel was awarded the Order of the Renaissance of Poland , and subsequently also the Golden Cross of Merit . In 1949, Morel was appointed commandant of the Yavorno Central Labor Camp, where Ukrainians were detained during the Operation Wisla . Later he was the head of various prisons. He rose to the colonel. He completed work in places of detention in May 1968.

While working in 1949, he graduated from high school in Katowice, in 1958 he entered the correspondence department of the Faculty of Law of the University of Wroclaw. In 1964 he received a diploma, defending his work on the topic "The work of prisoners and its significance."

According to John Sack, author of The Eye for an Eye: The Untold Story of Jewish Revenge for the Germans in 1945 (AN EYE FOR AN EYE - The Story of Jews Who Sought Revenge For the Holocaust), Solomon Morel already on the opening day of the Svetočlovice concentration camp He admitted that he wants revenge for more than 30 of his relatives killed by the Nazis.

“On the first night in Svetochlovice, when the first prisoners were taken to a concentration camp, he went into one of the barracks and told the Germans:“ My name is Morel. I am Jewish. My mother and father, my family, according to my assumptions, died, and I vowed that if I survived, I would avenge the Nazis. Now you will pay for what you did "".

In his book, Sack describes the mass atrocities in this concentration camp, where the guards scoffed at the prisoners, beat and even crippled them ^[1] .

Until 1992, Morel lived in Katowice . After the fall of communism in Poland, Morel’s activities became the subject of an investigation by the Institute of National Remembrance . In 1992, Morel left for Israel. The Polish government twice sent a request to Israel to extradite Morel on several charges, including genocide, but Israel did not agree to extradite him.

Morel died in 2007 in Tel Aviv .

• Salomon Morel (Polish) . Instytut Pamięci Narodowej . Date of treatment June 20, 2015.
• Holocaust Jew accused of war crimes - World - theage.com.au theage.com.au. Date of treatment May 29, 2012. Archived June 26, 2012.