Marion Mushkat

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Marion Mushkat or Marian Muszkat (November 5, 1909 – September 30, 1995), was a

military law and international affairs. He immigrated to Israel at the end of Stalinist period in postwar Poland, where he became a professor at Tel Aviv University. He died in Haifa
.

Muszkat's signature

Biography

Early life

Marian Muszkat was born in

Master of Law, and in 1936 at the same university he received a degree of Doctor of Law
.

During World War II

During

Polish First Army. In 1945 he was promoted to a judge of Supreme Court Martial. In the Court, Muszkat was a vice-chairman and chief of the War Crimes Commission. After his return to Poland with the Soviet westward offensive in 1945, he became a member of Polish Workers' Party
(PPR). On 5 December 1946 Muszkat was demobilized from the army as a colonel.

The Polish People's Republic

After the war he began his work in the Stalinist

Nuremberg Trials Mushkat directed the Polish delegation which also included Prof Tadeusz Cyprian and prosecutors: Prof Jerzy Sawicki and Dr Stanisław Piotrowski
. They prepared the “Polish indictment” containing the list of proven Nazi war crimes committed in Polish territory.

Having returned to Poland he began scientific and didactic activity. At the University of Warsaw he lectured on military law and international public law in the Department of International Public and Private Law, directed by prof Cezary Berezowski.[2] He also lectured at the Central Law School, General Headquarters Academy and Polish International Affairs Institute (from 1950-1951 as its director). In 1950, for his dissertation in the Stalinist International criminal law, new domain development, he was awarded a professorship. He was co-founder and editor Law and Life magazine.

Muszkat wrote from the pro-Soviet point of view. He propagated communist ideals, especially those of his mentor Andriej Wyszynski. Amongst Polish scientists, Muszkat has some opponents. For instance prof. Stefan Korboński wrote later that "Muszkat's views transformed the courts into a political institution, with prosecutors as masters of life and death of absolutely everyone (...) and barristers, as communist police helpers."[3]

Israel

In 1957, following the anti-Stalinist Polish October revolution Muszkat left Poland, and settled in Israel. At Tel Aviv University, he lectured on international public law and international affairs. In 1961, Yad Vashem Institute designated him as co-ordinator and adviser to the Adolf Eichmann trial. Muszkat, at the request of Israel's government, was a consultant in many strategic matters undertook by this country.[4] Professor Muszkat became a member of many international institutes, organizations, and associations, for example: the International Peace Institute, the World Academy of Art and Science, American Academy of Political and Social Science, International Bar Association, World Federalist Movement, Institut Français de Polémologie, and the National Institute of Justice.

He participated in many congresses and symposiums in the whole world to field political research, peace research and futurology. Muszkat is author of many publications edited in: Polish, English, French, Hebrew, German, Russian, Czech, Hungarian and Chinese, too. He wrote the first Polish modern textbook on international public law, Outline of the International Public Law Muszkat M. (edit.), Warsaw 1955 (two volumes). He died September 30, 1995, in Haifa.

Distinctions

  • Medal "For Courage" (Russia)
  • Medal for Battle Merit
  • Polonia Restituta
  • Cross of Grunwald
    (third class)
  • Medal 10 Years Polish Democratic Republic

Selected publications

  • Polish Charges against German War Criminals submitted to the UN War Crimes Commission, Warsaw 1948;
  • The Protection of Human Rights, Warsaw 1948;
  • Some Problems of Israel's Development: An Outline, Hamburg 1971;
  • The Evolution of the Situation in Poland in 1980, Koln 1981;
  • The Third World and Peace: Some Aspects of the Interrelationship of Underdevelopment and International Security, New York-Hampshire 1982;
  • Philo-Semitic and Anti-Jews Attitudes in Post-Holocaust Poland, Lewiston-Queenstown-Lampeter 1992.[5]

See also

References

  1. Instytut Pamięci Narodowej. Archived from the original
    on 15 April 2016. Retrieved 9 October 2013.
  2. ^ K. Karski, A Brief Review of Instruction on the Public International Law at the University of Warsaw, "Miscellanea Iuris Gentium" 1991, vol.2;
  3. ^ S. Korboński, W imieniu Kremla [In Kremlin's Name], Paris 1956. Original quote in Polish: "poglądy Muszkata robiły z sądu instytucję polityczną, z prokuratorów panów życia i śmierci każdego człowieka (...) a z adwokatów pomocników funkcjonariuszy milicji."
  4. ^ K. Karski, Marian Muszkat – Professor of Law and International Relations, (in:) The Polish Diplomatic Review no 4 (38) 2007
  5. ^ Ch. Boasson, M. Nurock (red.), The Changing International Community. Some problems of its laws, structure, peace research and the Middle Est conflict. Essays in honour of Marion Mushkat, The Huge-Paris 1973;
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