Zdzisław Łukaszkiewicz
the Holocaust
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Holocaust research
Łukaszkiewicz conducted his research at the time when virtually nothing was known about the scale and the exact way in which these atrocities were committed. He published his first findings already in 1946 along with the results of legal and medical inquiries, sworn
Nowa Encyklopedia Powszechna PWN among others. Also, many professional historians including Wolfgang Scheffler and Czesław Rajca used his publications as the source of pertinent data.[4][6]
Challenges
Łukaszkiewicz was the first Polish researcher to study the 1943 massacre committed at the
Operation Erntefest. The more substantial revisions to his early research (published in 1948) have been made only in the 1960s and 1970s, when the first testimonies of the Holocaust perpetrators appeared in German court documents during trials.[7]
Although his research was further revised by Holocaust scholars, Łukaszkiewicz was the first Polish scientist to challenge the evidence for the prosecution submitted in 1946 by the Soviets at the
International Military Tribunal (IMT) at Nuremberg.[8] The completely unrealistic estimate of 1.5 million people murdered at the Majdanek concentration camp was based on the theoretical capacity of Majdanek coke-fueled crematoria.[8] This number claimed by the Soviet-led Special Commission was lowered by Łukaszkiewicz by over one million victims based on his own evidence, down to 360,000 which – at that particular time – constituted a challenge requiring a substantial amount of personal integrity.[4][7]
Selected works
- "Obóz zagłady Treblinka" (The Extermination Camp Treblinka) by Zdzisław Łukaszkiewicz, a thirty-page article in: Biuletyn Głównej Komisji Badania Zbrodni Hitlerowskich w Polsce, I, 1946.[9]
- Obóz straceń w Treblince by Zdzisław Łukaszkiewicz (book), published by OCLC 79768503
- Hitlerowskie obozy koncentracyjne (Nazi Concentration Camps) by Zdzisław Łukaszkiewicz (book), published by Polski Instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych, 1955 in Polish, 3 editions
- Regulamin czynności sądów wojewódzkich i powiatowych w sprawach cywilnych i karnych by Z. Łukaszkiewicz with Tadeusz Górski; Janusz Pietrzykowski [u.a.] (book), 1 edition published in 1956 in Polish
- Chuligaństwo by Z. Łukaszkiewicz with J. Sawicki, G. Auscaler, A. Pawełczyńska, T. Cyprian. Ed. by J. Sawicki (book), 1 edition published in 1956 in Polish
- Obóz koncentracyjny i zagłady Majdanek by Zdzisław Łukaszkiewicz (book), Biuletyn Głównej Komisji Badania Zbrodni Niemieckich” 1948, vol. 4, in Polish, OCLC 42357118
See also
Notes
- ^ Jerzy Halbersztadt (31 Dec 1995). "Main Crimes Commission in Poland". H-Net Humanities and Social Sciences Online. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Dariusz Stola (2013). "Poland's Institute of National Remembrance: A Ministry of Memory?" (PDF file, direct download 507 KB). Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland. Academia.edu: 5 in current document (or 50). Retrieved 5 October 2013.
- ^ Compiled by Dr S.D. Stein (2 February 2000). "The Treblinka Extermination Camp". Source: German Crimes in Poland. Volume I. Published by the Central Commission for Investigation of German Crimes in Poland. Warsaw, 1946. HLSS Social Sciences. Archived from the original (Internet Archive) on October 8, 2006. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
- ^ ISBN 978-83-7257-496-1, archived from the original(PDF file, direct download 20.2 MB) on 10 October 2014, retrieved 30 July 2014,
with selected testimonies, bibliography, alphabetical indexes, photographs, English language summaries, and forewords by Holocaust scholars.
- ^ Paweł P. Reszka, Gazeta Wyborcza Lublin (23 December 2005). "Majdanek Victims Enumerated. Changes in the history textbooks?". Państwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau w Oświęcimiu. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
- ^ "Majdanek" (PDF file, direct download). Encyclopedia of the Holocaust. Yad Vashem. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
- ^ Majdanek Museum. pp. 15–16. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
Zdzisław Łukaszkiewicz, Obóz koncentracyjny i zagłady Majdanek, „Biuletyn Głównej Komisji Badania Zbrodni Niemieckich" 1948.
- ^ a b Mr. Counsellor Smirnov (14 November 1945 – 1 October 1946). "Trial of the Major War Criminals" (PDF). Afternoon Session: 19 February 1946. Nuremberg: The International Military Tribunal. 590 of current document. Volume VII Official Text in the English Language Published at Nurembers, Germany, 1947. Resources. Retrieved 5 August 2014.
The Polish-Soviet Extraordinary Commission has ascertained that during the 4 years' existence of the extermination camp at Maidanek the Hitlerite hangmen, following the direct order of their criminal government, exterminated by mass shooting and mass killing in gas chambers approximately 1.5 million persons...
- ^ "Łukaszkiewicz, Zdzisław". WorldCat Identities. OCLC Online Computer Library Center. 2010. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
- ^ "BU Katalog on-line". Łukaszkiewicz, Zdzisław (1955), Hitlerowskie obozy koncentracyjne. Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu. 2014. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
References
- Ghetto Fighters' House, Death camp forensic investigations (1), Poland (historic photograph), Internet Archive 2007.
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