Maria Trzcińska

Maria (Marianna) Trzcińska (died 22 December 2011 in Warsaw) was a Polish judge employed for over 30 years in the People's Republic of Poland at the Main Commission for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes in Poland (Główna Komisja Badania Zbrodni Hitlerowskich w Polsce) with the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN). She investigated and researched the Nazi German World War II crimes in Poland. Trzcińska was the author of an historical monograph about the Warsaw concentration camp (KL Warschau) set up by the SS in occupied Poland, the only Nazi concentration camp ever built in a European capital.[1]

Controversy

After the collapse of the Soviet empire in 1989, Trzcińska began to withdraw her support for the IPN asserting that the number of victims of KL Warschau was ten times greater than previously assumed by historians. She had propagated the claim that the camp operated gas chambers, which was rejected by the IPN as unproven.[2][3] Trzcińska appeared on Radio Maryja and in nationalist media speaking about the fact that the Nazi German camp in the capital was used in Stalinist Poland as detention facility for the anti-Nazi resistance. She engaged in a conflict with the IPN regarding the content of her research and opposed its further publication. Her copyright request was rejected by the IPN as concerning state property already paid for, including historical documents and testimonies of survivors.[4] Her additional claims made on behalf of the new public monument committee, about the alleged much greater size of the German camp extending beyond Warszawa Zachodnia station, were refuted by the IPN.[5]

Bibliography

  1. Maria Trzcińska, Obóz zagłady w centrum Warszawy, Polskie Wydawnictwo Encyklopedyczne, Radom 2002, ISBN 83-88822-16-0. (Polish)

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Bogusław Rąpała (23 December 2011). "Maria Trzcińska nie żyje". Nr 298 (4229). Nasz Dziennik. Retrieved 24 September 2013.
  2. ↑ Jerzy Kochanowski (4 November 2009). "Śmierć w Warschau" [Death in Warschau]. Polityka.pl – Historia (in Polish). Archived from the original on 25 Sep 2013. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
  3. ↑ Iwona Szpala (08.10.2009). "Postawią pomnik innemu KL Warschau" [Would erect monument to a different camp]. Gazeta.pl (in Polish). Archived from the original on 25 Sep 2013. Retrieved 25 September 2013. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  4. ↑ Andrzej Arseniuk (2013). "Komunikat w związku z publikacją "Kto się boi pomnika ofiar KL Warschau?" ("Nasz Dziennik" 20-21.10.2007 r.)" [Communiqué regarding publication of "Who's afraid of monument to victims of KL Warschau"]. Institute of National Remembrance. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
  5. ↑ IPN (08.05.2003). "Informacja o śledztwie w sprawie KL Warschau" (in Polish). Archived from the original on October 22, 2006. Check date values in: |date= (help)
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