Waldemar Amelung
Waldemar Amelung, a second lieutenant (Gendarmes executed the massacres. The police were from Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, and Belarus.[3] In October 1941, Amelung had all the Jews at Horodyszcze brought to the town square. He identified more than 1,000 Jews who were taken by trucks to two forests near the town where German forces shot them and were buried in a mass grave. There were already 60 dead bodies of the men who dug the ditches the day before, 20 October 1941. About 70 people who had special skills, like carpenters or blacksmiths, went to a building with their families.[4]
Amelung was born in Kopjoni, Russia on 11 November 1914. He worked as a textile technician. In 1933 and 1934, Amelunch served in the
Latvian Army. A member of the Nazi Party, he was employed by the SS on 1 February 1940. He received the Infantry Assault Badge and the Eastern People's Medal.[5] He died in 1954.[4]
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References
- ^ ISBN 978-0-674-72660-4.
- ^ Tsur, Jakov (1995). "Der verhängnisvolle Weg des Transportes AAY". Theresienstädter Studien und Dokumente (in German). pp. 114–115. Retrieved 2023-04-20.
- ^ Yad Vashem Studies. Wallstein Verlag. 2001. p. 48.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-253-00202-0.
- ISBN 978-0-7643-1285-4.
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