Salomon Morel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Salomon Morel

POlish functionary

Date of Birth: 15-Nov-1919

Place of Birth: Lublin Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 14-Feb-2007

Profession: civil servant, torturer

Nationality: Poland, Israel

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About 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.
  • Morel was as a commander of concentration camps run by the NKVD and Polish communist authorities until 1956.
  • 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 Swietochlowice, Poland.
  • 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 a prison in Katowice and was promoted to the rank colonel in the political police, the MBP.
  • He was dismissed during the 1968 Polish political crisis which saw the purging of ex-Stalinists.Beginning in the early 1990s Morel was investigated by authorities for war crimes and crimes against humanity, including the murder of more than 1,500 prisoners from Upper Silesia, most of from the local population.
  • In 1996, he was indicted by Poland on charges of torture, war crimes, crimes against humanity and communist crimes.
  • After his case was publicized by the Polish, German, British, and American media, Morel fled to Israel and was granted citizenship under the Law of Return.
  • Poland twice requested his extradition, once in 1998 and once in 2004, but Israel refused to comply and rejected the more serious charges as being false and again rejected extradition on the grounds that the statute of limitations against Morel had run out, and that Morel was in poor health; Israel also cited Morel's Jewish background as a specific reason not to extradite him.
  • Polish authorities responded by accusing Israel of applying a double standard, and the controversy over Morel's extradition continued until his death.

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