Poland has asked Israel to extradite Solomon Morall from
Israel, who is suspected by them of committing war crimes
when he commanded a forced-labor camp where Germans were
imprisoned in Poland after World War II. The Polish Justice
Ministry approved the extradition request, which was
submitted through diplomatic channels, reported Radio Poland.
Israel rejected a previous extradition request Poland
submitted against Morall.
Polish prosecutors at the Polish Authority for War Crimes
have accused Morall of causing the deaths of over 1,500 in
the Leid Swietochlovitza forced-labor camp in Southern
Poland. A senior official at the Polish War Crimes Authority
said Morall has been charged with crimes against humanity for
which there is no statute of limitations.
According to a report by Noach Kliger published six months
ago, Shlomo Morall, today 84, joined the communist Polish
underground in 1942. The Germans murdered his parents and
siblings through antisemitic Polish policemen.
Morall fought with the Partisans and when the Russians
entered Schelsia he was appointed commander of the camp were
German prisoners and VolksDeutsch (Poles of German
descent in the SS) were incarcerated. Many of the prisoners
in these camps died from epidemics and starvation.
In 1993 Morall told an American reporter he took revenge
against the Nazis and their accomplices when he commanded the
camp. Ever since then, allegations of genocide have been
lodged against him periodically. Recently the Polish
government decided to bring him to trial for these charges, a
move clearly intended to demonstrate that Jews were also
involved in mass murder.
