Grojanowski-Report

The Grojanowski report is a report about the mass murder of Polish Jews by the German occupying power in the Chelmno extermination camp, which was written by Szlamek Bajler under the pseudonym Jacob Grojanowski 1942. In January / February 1942 the prisoner Bajler succeeded Rabbi Yehoshua Moshe together with Aharonson from there to escape and reached the Warsaw Ghetto. There he reported in detail in Yiddish historian Oneg Shabbat group to Emanuel Ringelblum it. The report prepared thereafter was smuggled out of the ghetto and came across the Polish resistance to the Polish government in exile in London (June 1942).

He described the arrest of Jews in Izbica Kujawska on January 6 and the entire destruction process in the concentration camps: the asphyxiation in the gas vans, the disposal of the bodies, the detention conditions of prisoners and his escape. Oneg Shabbat and Bajler authored the report in Polish and German, and sent the Polish version to London.

Bajler fled then to Zamość. From there he wrote Emanuel Ringelblum, the report of another extermination camp, concentration camp Belzec. A few days after this letter, about the end of April 1942 Szlamek Bajler was arrested in a raid, deported and murdered in Belzec itself. According to Yad Vashem the Grojanowski report at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw prior to and as a copy in Jerusalem ( JM/2713 ).

His report completed at the Polish government in exile and the Allies the level of information about the Holocaust of Germans to Jews, whom they sent, inter alia, by the reports of Witold Pilecki ( from October, 1940, he reports from Auschwitz to Warsaw and from March 1941 they went to London ) and by Jan Karski (spring 1942) had. This led inter alia to the Inter-Allied Declaration against the bestial policy of cold-blooded extermination of the Jews of Europe in December 1942.

See also: Holocaust knowledge of eyewitness

Footnotes

• Holocaust in Poland
• Historical Document
• 1942