The body of Peter Chemy hangs lifeless on a post after his execution by firing squad.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 66327

Date: 1947
Locale: Landsberg, [Bavaria] Germany
Variant Locale: Landsberg Am Lech
Photo Designation: PURSUIT OF JUSTICE -- Concentration Camp/Atrocity Trials -- US Army Trials -- Punishment
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Joseph H. Williams

Event History: https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005140.
Biography: Peter Chemy, a Polish national liberated from a concentration camp by Americans in May 1945, spent the first few months of his freedom adrift in Germany. On a snowy winter night of that year, he found refuge and a meal in the home of a German family: husband, wife, and daughter. After they had gone to sleep, Chemy found a hatchet and murdered them in their beds. He was tried by an American tribunal, sent to Landsberg, and executed by firing squad in January 1947.

[Source: Williams, Lt. Joseph H; Captor-Captive, Jacksonville, Girtman Press, 1986.]
Keyword: EXECUTIONS
POLES
PRISONS
PRISONS (LANDSBERG)
SURVIVORS
WAR CRIMINALS/TRIALS
Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Joseph H. Williams
: Record last modified: 2008-08-25 00:00:00
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