Report of the Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland on the First Visit to the ChełMno Execution Camp Cover Image

Sprawozdanie Komisji dla badań zbrodni niemieckich w Polsce z pierwszego wyjazdu na teren obozu straceń w Chełmnie [26 maja 1945 r.]
Report of the Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland on the First Visit to the ChełMno Execution Camp

Author(s): Bartłomiej Grzanka
Subject(s): History, Local History / Microhistory, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949)
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Kulmhof death camp; Chełmno; District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Łódź; Zofia Nałkowska; report

Summary/Abstract: The visit of members of the District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Łódź and representatives of the literary and press community in Chełmno on May 26, 1945 was not the first official visit to the grounds of the former German extermination camp. However, it became an impulse to undertake an official investigation into the crimes committed there, and over time – thanks to the literary processing of the materials collected at that time by Zofia Nałkowska, the head of the Commission – also a symbol of the investigation of the “Chełmno affair”. The report presented below has not yet been published in its original form.

  • Issue Year: 2024
  • Issue No: XI
  • Page Range: 367-386
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Polish
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