American military police tie Peter Chemy to a post prior to his execution by firing squad.
Overview
- Caption
- American military police tie Peter Chemy to a post prior to his execution by firing squad.
- Date
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1947
- Locale
- Landsberg, [Bavaria] Germany
- Variant Locale
- Landsberg Am Lech
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Joseph H. Williams
- Event History
- https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005140.
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Joseph H. Williams
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Administrative Notes
- 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.]
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- 2007-04-13 00:00:00
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