Zgoda: The Real Auschwitz Death Camp

January 26th, 2016

Awake Goy

The Zgoda (or Swietochlowice) camp was opened in February 1945 for enemies of the Soviet Union in the formerly German province of Silesia in Poland. It was set up at the location of a former Auschwitz subcamp, where jews had been forced to work for the German war effort.

On March 15, 1945 the 26 year old Colonel Salomon Morel ,with no relevant training, became the commander of the camp. The cruel Communist is pictured to the left.

About 6,000 persons were imprisoned at the Zgoda camp, 1/3 of them were Germans and the rest were Poles and other nationalities. Some families had children with them to the camp. Statistics and witness statements speak of about 2 mothers with children between 1 to 5 years of age and perhaps 2 or 3 children 6 or 7 years old, that we know of. Most camp inmates were over 40 years old and there was a large group of people above 60 years old.

The inmates were systematically maltreated and tortured by the guards, most of whom were jews, including by Morel himself. They liked to make pyramids of beaten prisoners up to six layers high, causing suffocation.

At night the guards went to the women’s barracks, chose half a dozen women, took them to their quarters outside the barbed wire, and gang-raped them.

One of the most cruel punishments involved a bunker where inmates had to stand in cold water higher than their heads.

A typhus epidemic broke soon out in the camp, but no medical help was offered to prisoner and no action was taken until the epidemic spread across the entire camp. Some estimates of the body count during the typhus epidemic were sixty to eighty, eighty to one hundred, and more than one hundred people per day. The bodies of the dead were being piled up on carts at night and taken outside the camp to hastily dug mass graves. Morel did not inform his superiors about the typhus epidemic until the news of the situation was reported by the local newspapers.

There are only 1,583 prisoners death certificates at Morel’s camp, but the jewish commander did not report every death.

The crimes at the camp are recognized by international law as crimes against humanity. When the Polish authorities started to investigated after the fall of communism in 1992, Morel took the first plane that he could to Tel Aviv. He is pictured again on the right.

He was subsequently wanted by the Polish authorities for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Poland requested his extradition twice, but this was denied.