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Excerpts from the Report on 'Efforts to Prosecute Nazi War Criminals (01.01.2001 - 31.03.2002)', based on the questionnaire of Simon Wiesenthal Center

1. Number of cases completed in the period from January 1, 2001 to March 31, 2002.

On March 14, 2001 the Departmental Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation in Poznań issued an indictment to the District Court in Poznań against Henryk Mania for the deed consisting in the co-operation with the German state from December 8, 1941 to April 7, 1943 in the concentration camp in Chełmno upon Nerem (currently the Wielkopolskie province) where in the co-operation with other people he took part in genocide on Polish citizens of Jewish nationality, which qualifies as a crime according to Art. 1, Par. 1 of a decree of August 31, 1944 on crimes and punishments for Nazi criminals guilty of murders and tortures inflicted upon civilians and prisoners and for traitors of the Polish Nation (Official Journal of the Republic of Poland, No. 69 of 1946, position 377).
On June 7, 2001 the District Court in Poznań, delegation in Konin - found the defendant guilty of the crime and sentenced him for 8 years of imprisonment (the sentence: XVI K 3/01).
On February 2, 2002, the Court of Appeal in Poznań, amining the appeal of the defendant submitted by his attorney Jarosław L., sustained the sentence of the District Court in Poznań. The sentence is legally valid.

2. Number of cases filed or currently in litigation.

So far no other person has been charged with committing a crime and no further indictments have been issued.

3. Number of cases launched in 2001 and before the end of March 2002.

48 investigations have been initiated in the Institute of National Remembrance - Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation in Poland, out of which:

A. Departmental Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation in Biaωystok initiated 5 investigations in the cases of:

  1. so called pogrom of the Jewish people in the third decade of June 1941 in Miastkowo;
  2. murder on July 7, 1941 and in the following years of several hundred Polish citizens of Jewish nationality in Radziwiłów, Podlaskie province;
  3. murder of Polish citizens, including the citizens of Jewish nationality, committed in the years 1941-1944 in the prison in Łomża;
  4. murders committed in the years 1941-1944 by the Gestapo officers from Wołkowysk, in the area of their jurisdiction, on Polish citizens, including the citizens of Jewish nationality;
  5. murders of August 12, 1943 in Niezbodziczce, Podlaskie province, committed on 46 Polish citizens, including a 6-member family of a Jewish nationality by unidentified perpetrators.

B. Departmental Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation in Gdańsk initiated 3 investigations, in the cases of:

  1. crimes committed in the years 1941-1944 by the Nazi police officers and cooperating with them Lithuanian police officers, in the area of the Vilnius province on Polish citizens of Jewish nationality as well as the eradication of the Vilnius ghetto;
  2. kidnapping in 1943 and 1944 by Germans, during the occupation of Poland, from unidentified places in Poland, against the will of their parents and custodians, of an unidentified number of juvenile Polish female citizens of Jewish nationality, imprisoning them in Liszkowo, Kujawsko-Pomorskie province, with the aim of their extermination;
  3. shooting down in September 1939 in Tuchola, Kujawsko-Pomorskie province, by the German officers of so called Selbschutz, of 46 Polish citizens of the Jewish nationality.

 

 

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