Date of death:

January 1947 (Landsberg am Lech, Germany)

Buried on:

Graves German War Criminals (Spöttinger Friedhof)

Nationality:

Polish (1918-1939, IInd Republic)

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.

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