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Official documentation of the regional committee for the investigation of Nazi war crimes in Poznań, regarding Bolewice camp

Official documentation of the regional committee for the investigation of Nazi war crimes in Poznań, regarding Bolewice camp Establishment of Bolewice camp in 1940; population of the camp with approximately 350 Jews; the camp is subject to the administration of the camps for Jews, in Poznań; administration of the labor in the camp by a German company responsible for the paving of the Berlin-Warsaw road; direct supervision over the camp inmates by the Gestapo; actual supervision of the camp inmates by Gendarmerie people who are Germans from Grodzisko; housing of the inmates and the German guards in four or five wooden barracks; Bolewice camp life, including starvation and acts of abuse by the Germans; executions by hanging including the execution of a Jewish youth who attempted to steal potatoes, and the execution of four Jews who attempted to escape from the camp; liquidation of Bolewice camp in 1944, including the dismantling of the buildings; transfer of the inmates to an unknown destination; closure of the file by the regional committee for the investigation of Nazi war crimes in Poznań, after not locating the Germans who perpetrated the crimes; imposition of 15 months of imprisonment on a Polish guard, for the crimes he perpetrated in the camp.
item Id
3746858
Type of material
Legal documentation
File Number
45
Language
Polish
Record Group
TR.17 - Investigation Commissions in Poland
Date of Creation - earliest
05/02/1971
Date of Creation - latest
15/06/1977
Original
NO
No. of pages/frames
21
Archival Signature
OKP.I.DS. 4/68
Location of Originals
OKREGOWA KOMISJA BADANIA ZBRODNI HITLEROWSKICH - OKBZH, POZNAN, POLAND
Dedication
Yad Vashem Document Collection, Moshal Repository