Walerjan Wróbel - Stiftung Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas
Walerjan Wróbel - Stiftung Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas
Walerjan Wróbel - Stiftung Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas
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Denial of the plea for mercy by<br />
Roland Freisler, Berlin 1942.<br />
Source: State archive Bremen<br />
<strong>Walerjan</strong> <strong>Wróbel</strong><br />
<strong>Walerjan</strong>’s public defender submitted a plea for mercy, denied by<br />
Roland Freisler 6 in the name of the Reich justice minister. <strong>Walerjan</strong><br />
was executed in Hamburg on August 25, 1942 at the age of 17.<br />
The carrying out of the death penalty was announced publicly in order<br />
to serve as a deterrent and warning to the population in Bremen.<br />
In the 1980s, a historian came upon <strong>Walerjan</strong>’s story and investigated it,<br />
publishing the findings of his research in a book. Today an association<br />
for the indemnification of former forced laborers bears the name of<br />
<strong>Walerjan</strong> <strong>Wróbel</strong>.<br />
To inform the public about <strong>Walerjan</strong>’s execution, posters were pasted up<br />
in Bremen at more than 250 places. They referred to <strong>Walerjan</strong><br />
euphemistically as an agricultural worker, but in actual fact he had been<br />
deported to Germany as a forced laborer. Source: State archive Bremen<br />
<strong>Walerjan</strong> <strong>Wróbel</strong> Page 4b www.stiftung-denkmal.de
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