Fridrich Kuczynski

Fridrich Karl Kuczyński, another common spelling Fridrich Kuczyńsky (1914, Suczów[1] - 1948[2][3][4] or 22 February 1949) – war criminal, national socialist, head of the department for Jews at the Special Plenipotentiary of Reichsfurer SS and Chief Police for Employment of Foreign Nationalities in the area of Zagłębie Dąbrowskie. Participant, among others, in the selection on 12 August 1942, on the pitch of the Hakoach sports club in Będzin ghetto, when people who were later deported to extermination camp were selected.

For crimes committed during the occupation against the Jewish nation, responsible for some 100,000 victims,[5] he was sentenced in 1948 by the District Court in Sosnowiec to death penalty . The sentence was carried out by hanging.[6]

Kuczynski was a member of the Organization Schmelt (Dienststelle Schmelt).[2][7][8][3][9] The selections of Jews were carried out by officials from the Schmelt department, in particular by Friedrich Karl Kuczynski. "Schmelt's office was represented with its own quarters in the Auschwitz concentration camp."[10][11]

He always wore civilian clothes.[12]

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References
  1. Laskier, Rutka (2006). Pamiętnik Rutki Laskier (in Polish). Dziennik Zachodni. p. 41. ISBN 978-83-89956-37-8.
    "Kierował referatem d / s żydowskich przy Specjalnym Pełnomocniku Reichsfurera SS i Szefa Policji Niemieckiej d / s zatrudniania Obcych Narodowości. W 1948 roku Sąd Okręgowy w Sosnowcu skazał F. Kuczyńskiego za zbrodnie na narodzie żydowskim na karę śmierci. [He headed the department for Jewish affairs at the Special Plenipotentiary of the SS Reichsfurer and the Chief of the German Police for the employment of foreign nationalities. In 1948, the District Court in Sosnowiec sentenced F. Kuczyński to death for crimes against the Jewish nation.]"
  2. Megargee, Geoffrey P.; Dean, Martin (2012-05-04). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933 –1945: Volume II: Ghettos in German-Occupied Eastern Europe. Indiana University Press. p. 151. ISBN 978-0-253-00202-0.
  3. "Holocaust Historical Society". www.holocausthistoricalsociety.org.uk. Retrieved 2023-02-26.
  4. Laskier, Rutka; Bulwik, Regina (2008). Rutka Laskier et Regina Bulwik, notre vie dans le ghetto de Bedzin, 1939-1943 (in French). Projet Comenius. p. 15. ISBN 978-2-916921-06-8.
    [Fridrich Kuczynski (1914-1948): he administered the Section for Jewish Affairs in Upper Silesia. This organization depended on the Reichfürher SS and the chief of the German police. In 1948 he was sentenced to death by the Regional Court.]
  5. "Major War Criminal Responsible for Murder of 100,000 Police Jews Gets Death Sentence". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 1948-08-13. Retrieved 2023-02-26., "Major War Criminal Gets Death Sentence". The Detroit Jewish News Digital Archives. 1948-09-10. Retrieved 2023-02-26.
  6. Fulbrook, Mary (2013-09-26). A Small Town Near Auschwitz: Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust. Oxford University Press. p. 390. ISBN 978-0-19-967925-6.
  7. Będzin, The Encyclopedia of the Ghettos, (In Hebrew), Yad Vashem
  8. Steinbacher, Sybille (2000). "Musterstadt" Auschwitz: Germanisierungspolitik und Judenmord in Ostoberschlesien (in German). K.G. Saur. p. 140. ISBN 978-3-598-24031-7.
  9. Jan Erik Schulte: Die Wannsee-Konferenz und Auschwitz. Rhetorik und Praxis der jüdischen Zwangsarbeit als Voraussetzung des Genozids. In [The Wannsee Conference and Auschwitz. Rhetoric and practice of Jewish forced labor as a prerequisite for genocide]. In: Norbert Kampe, Peter Klein (ed.): Die Wannsee-Konferenz am 20. Januar 1942. Dokumente, Forschungsstand, Kontroversen. [The Wannsee Conference on 20 January 1942. Documents, state of research, controversies]. Böhlau, Cologne and others 2013, ISBN 978-3-412-21070-0, pp. 216-238, here p. 235.
  10. Koop, Volker (2014-10-01). Rudolf Höß: Der Kommandant von Auschwitz. Eine Biographie (in German). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. ISBN 978-3-412-21811-9.
  11. Koop, Volker (2021-03-23). The Commandant of Auschwitz: Rudolf Höss. Frontline Books. ISBN 978-1-4738-8690-2.
  12. "PolishJews.org - The Polish Jews Home Page". polishjews.org. Retrieved 2023-02-26.
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