Memorial plaque to the victims of the Niepolomice Forest Massacre. [Internet resource] (ID: 32687)
Authorship or Source:
- Blumenfrucht, Steven.
- Niepolomice National Forest
Year:
[2003?]
Title or Main Description:
Memorial plaque to the victims of the Niepolomice Forest Massacre. [Internet resource]
Place Published or Holding Institution:
[Niepolomice National Forest, Poland]
Description:
3 leaves : ill. ; 28 cm.
Type of Work:
Printout of email, explanatory text + image.
Alternate or Series Title:
EE3096.PDF
Museum or Other Institution Holdings:
Survivors Registry Collection: Document File EE3096.
Provenance:
Obtained by email from the author-photographer, Mr. Steven Blumenfrucht, via the Museum's Associate Curator of Art & Artifacts, Ms. Teresa Pollin.
Keywords:
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --Registers of dead --Poland --Niepolomice.
- Holocaust memorials --Poland --Niepolomice --Pictorial works.
- Niepolomice Forest Massacre, Poland, 1942 --Registers.
- World War, 1939-1945 --Atrocities --Poland --Niepolomice Forest --Registers.
Abstract:
"Niepolomice was a suburb of Kraków. A mass execution occurred August 27, 1942, during World War II, in the Niepolomice National Forest. Thirty-eight are memorialized on a gravestone there. I found two instances of documentation about the massacre. It is described in testimony given by Eliahu Richter who was born in Niepolomice, to Yad Vashem, in Testimony #03/3571 Archives #3172/197?R, Feb 1971. In a New York class-action lawsuit in 1996, found on?line in the Court TV library, against three Swiss banks, alleging that the banks conspired to launder and conceal Nazi assets. Within that brief the following was found: 'In 1945, a friend of Bernard Salamon wrote to Lewis Salton in New York and told him his entire family, including his mother and father, had been killed by the Nazi Regime. The letter stated that his family had been shipped by cattle car to a concentration camp called Belzec where they were stripped naked and gassed. He was later informed by a German legal official and provided a court paper documenting the death of some 612 Jews, including his father, in the Polish National Forest of Niepolomice in 1942. Mr. Salamon had been separated from his wife, daughter and other relatives and transported by truck to the forest where, the day before, Poles had been ordered to dig large trenches. The Nazi Regime SS commanders killed the 612, ten people at a time, by lining them up naked on the ground in front of the trenches, shooting them to death.'"--[Author's explanatory document].
Language and Other Notes:
- Cataloger-assigned title.
- Survivors Registry Document File 3096 includes printouts of image of memorial plaque, explanatory text by author and an email dated 11/13/2003 from Ms. Pollin with the text of Mr. Blumenfrucht's original email to her attached.
Location of Electronic or Internet File: