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Salomon Morel

Salomon Morel (November 15, 1919 – February 14, 2007) was an officer in the Ministry of Public Security in the Polish People's Republic, and a commander of concentration camps run by the NKVD and communist authorities until 1956. After Nazi Germany occupied Poland, Morel and his family went into hiding to avoid being placed in one of the Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Poland. Both Salomon and his brother survived part of the war and Holocaust under the protection of a local Polish farmer, before joining communist partisans. In 1944 Morel became warden of the Soviet NKVD prison at Lublin Castle. During most of 1945, he was commander of the Zgoda labour camp in Świętochłowice. In 1949 he was made commander of Jaworzno concentration camp and remained a commandant of numerous concentration camps until they were all closed down in 1956 following the Polish October. He then worked as head of prison in Katowice...

Salomon Morel

Salomon Morel, Solomon Morel či Šlomo Morel (15. listopad 1919, Garbów, Powiat Lubelski, Polsko – 14. únor 2007, Tel Aviv, Izrael) byl polský komunistický důstojník a válečný zločinec židovského původu. Salomon Morel byl od února do listopadu roku 1945 velitelem polského koncentračního tábora Zgoda v Świętochłowiciach ve Slezsku. Je zodpovědný za vraždy více než 1500 civilistů, internovaných do zmíněného koncentračního tábora, ale i za vraždy polského civilního obyvatelstva. Když mu v roce 1994 začalo hrozit trestní stíhání, unikl do Izraele. Izraelské orgány odmítly požadavek polských vyšetřovatelů o vydání do Polska trestnímu stíhání kvůli podezření ze spáchání válečných zločinů a zločinů proti lidskosti. Na jeho případ upozornil novinář John Sack, ve své knize Oko za oko. Sack byl kvůli tomu označen za antisemitu. Současně byla vyvolána diskuze o zločinech Židů páchaných na Němcích v období druhé světové války a těsně po ní a o přístupu…

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Yaroslav Hunka

Yaroslav Hunka (Ukrainian: Ярослав Гунька, Polish: Jarosław Hunka; born 1925) is a Ukrainian-Canadian World War II veteran of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician), a military formation of Nazi Germany. Born in Urman, then part of the Second Polish Republic, Hunka volunteered for SS Galizien in 1943. After the war, he immigrated to Canada as a displaced person, where he worked in the aviation industry, and became heavily involved in the Ukrainian community after retirement. He is a resident of North Bay, Ontario. In 2023, Hunka made international headlines after he was invited to the House of Commons of Canada to be recognized by Speaker Anthony Rota, the Member of Parliament for Hunka's district. On September 22, Hunka received two standing ovations from all house members, including Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau and visiting Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy...