DOCUMENTS AND LETTERS FROM KL PLASZÓW

There was a set of documents and private letters send from the KL Płaszów found recently during renovation works in a private home in Wieliczka. All of those were addressed to and in possession of already deceased war time rail clerk Stanisław Pamuła. He was keeping correspondence and became the trustee of many Cracow Jews imprisoned in KL Płaszów. On their request he was providing money , medicine or clothing. He also became a depository of some of their assets which he kept protected and administered through the war. The letters are in Polish, Yiddish and Hebrew. There is now a team of scholars working on the translations and research of the hidden archive content.

One of the letters from KL Plaszów in Polish.

In preparation of the 70th Anniversary of Auschwitz liberation the State Museum has removed from the monument in Birkenau the Cross of Grunwald which was posthumously granted to all the camp victims at the monument unveiling in 1967. It was, a now non existing Communist military decoration with a symbol of a regular cross with two swards in the middle. The museum is planing now to install at this part of the monument a quotation from Sondercommando prisoner Zalman Gradowski:

"Come to me you free citizen of the world, where your life is assured by human morality and your existence guaranteed by law and I will tell you how these modern-day criminals and common bandits have crushed the morality of life and annihilated the laws of existence".

Also a new plaque in Luxembourgish was added at the monument in Birkenau.

IN PREPARATION TO THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF KL AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU LIBERATION

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DOCUMENTS AND LETTERS FROM KL PLASZÓW

IN PREPARATION OF THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF KL AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU LIBERATION ON JANUARY 27, 2015.