Massacre of Lwów professors

In July 1941, 25 Polish academics from the city of Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine) along with the 25 of their family members were killed by Nazi German occupation forces.^[1]^[2] By targeting prominent citizens and intellectuals for elimination, the Nazis hoped to prevent anti-Nazi activity and to weaken the resolve of the Polish resistance movement. According to an eyewitness the executions were carried out by an Einsatzgruppe unit (German: Einsatzkommando zur besonderen Verwendung) under the command of Karl Eberhard Schöngarth with the participation of Ukrainian translators in German uniforms.^[3]

Background

Before September 1939 and the German invasion of Poland, Lwów, then in the Second Polish Republic, had 318,000 inhabitants of different ethnic groups and religions, 60% of whom were Poles, 30% Jews and about 10% Ukrainians and Germans.^[4] The city was one of the most important cultural centers of interwar Poland, housing five tertiary educational facilities, including Lwów University and Lwów Polytechnic. It was the home for many Polish and Polish Jewish intellectuals, political and cultural activists, scientists and members of Poland's interwar intelligentsia.^[1]

After Lwów was occupied by the Soviet Union in September 1939, Lwów University was renamed in honor of Ivan Franko, a major Ukrainian literary figure who lived in Lwów, and the language of instruction was changed from Polish to Ukrainian.^[5] Lwów was captured by German forces on 30 June 1941 after the German invasion of the Soviet Union. Along with German Wehrmacht units, a number of Abwehr and SS formations entered the city. During the German occupation of Poland, almost all of the 120,000 Jewish inhabitants of the city were killed, within the city's ghetto or in Bełżec extermination camp. By the end of the war, only 200–800 Jews survived.^[1]

To control the population, prominent citizens and intellectuals, particularly Jews and Poles, were either confined in ghettos or transported to execution sites such as the Gestapo prison on Pełczyńska Street, the Brygidki Prison, the former military prison at Zamarstynów and to the fields surrounding the city — in the suburb of Winniki, the Kortumówka hills and the Jewish Cemetery. Many of those killed were prominent leaders of Polish society: politicians, artists, aristocrats, sportsmen, scientists, priests, rabbis and other members of the intelligentsia. This mass murder is regarded as a pre-emptive measure to keep the Polish resistance scattered and to prevent Poles from revolting against Nazi rule. It was a direct continuation of the infamous German AB-Aktion in Poland, after the German invasion of the Soviet Union and the eastern half of prewar Poland fell under German occupation in place of that of the USSR. One of the earliest Nazi crimes in Lwów was the mass murder of Polish professors together with some of their relatives and guests, carried out at the beginning of July 1941.^[1]

Killings

Monument to the victims in Wrocław, Poland

By 2 July 1941, the individual, planned executions continued. At approximately 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Professor Kazimierz Bartel was arrested by one of the Einsatzgruppen operating in the area. During the night of 3/4 July, several dozen professors and their families were arrested by German detachments – each one consisting of an officer, several soldiers, Ukrainian guides and interpreters.^[6] The lists were prepared by their Ukrainian students associated with OUN.^[7]^[8] Some of the professors mentioned on the lists were already dead, specifically Adam Bednarski and Roman Leszczyński.^[6] Among those arrested was Roman Rencki, a director of the Clinic for Internal Diseases at Lwów University, who was kept in an NKVD prison and whose name was also on the list of Soviet prisoners sentenced to death.^[9]^[10]The detainees were transported to the Abrahamowicz's dormitory, where despite the initial intention to kill them, they were tortured and interrogated. The head of the department in the Jewish hospital, Adam Ruff, was shot during an epileptic attack.^[6]

In the early morning of 4 July, one of the professors and most of his servants were set free while the rest were either brought to the Wulka hills or shot to death in the courtyard of the Bursa Abrahamowiczów building. The victims were buried on the spot, but several days after the massacre their bodies were exhumed and transported by the Wehrmacht to an unknown place.^[1]^[11] There are accounts of four different methods used by the German troops. The victims were either beaten to death, killed with a bayonet, killed with a hammer, or shot to death. The professors themselves were shot to death.^[12]

Responsibility

The decision was made at the highest level of Nazi Germany's leadership.^[13] The direct decision maker of the massacre was the commander of the Sicherheitspolizei (Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD- BdS) in Krakau District of the General Government, Karl Eberhard Schöngarth. The following Gestapo officers also participated: Walter Kutschmann, Felix Landau, Heinz Heim (Chief of Staff Schöngarth), Hans Krueger and Kurt Stawizki. None of them were ever punished for their roles in the Lwów massacre, albeit Schöngarth, Landau, and Krueger were punished for other crimes, with Schöngarth being executed in 1946.^[14] Kutschmann lived under a false identity in Argentina until January 1975, when he was found and exposed by journalist Alfredo Serra in the resort town of Miramar. He was arrested ten years later in Florida, Buenos Aires, by Interpol agents but died of a heart attack in jail before he could be extradited to then West Germany, on 30 August 1986.^[15]

Some sources contend that members of the Ukrainian auxiliaries from the Nachtigall Battalion were responsible for the murders.^[16] According to the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, this claim originated with the Soviet sources and has been disputed.^[17]^[18] Memorial has published documents which claim to document the Nachtigall participation in those events as a KGB disinformation.^[19] Stanisław Bogaczewicz, of the Polish Institute of National Remembrance said that Nachtigall soldiers took part in the arrests, but not in the murders, and that their role in this event needs further investigation.^[20] Sociologist Tadeusz Piotrowski noted that while the Nachtigall role is disputed, they were present in the town during the events, their activities are not properly documented, and that at the very least they are guilty of the passive collaboration in this event, for not opposing the atrocities.^[16] According to a Lviv historian, Vasyl Rasevych, the claims that Ukrainians participated in the July 1941 massacre are untrue and that no archival evidence exists to support this contention.^[21]

Aftermath

After World War II the leadership of the Soviet Union made attempts to diminish the Polish cultural and historic legacy of Lwów. Crimes committed east of the Curzon line could not be prosecuted by Polish courts. Information on the atrocities that took place in Lwów was restricted. In 1960, Helena Krukowska, the widow of Włodzimierz Krukowski, launched an appeal to a court in Hamburg. After five years the West German court closed the judicial proceedings. A West German public prosecutor claimed the people responsible for the crime were already dead, however Hans Krueger, commander of the Gestapo unit supervising the massacres in Lwów in 1941, was being held in a Hamburg prison, having been sentenced to life imprisonment for the mass murder of Polish Jews of the Stanisławów Ghetto committed several weeks after his unit was transferred from Lwów. As a result, nobody has ever been held responsible for the killings of the academics.^[14]

In the 1970s, Abrahamowicz Street in Lviv was renamed Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński Street. Various Polish organisations have made deputations to remember the victims of the atrocity with a monument or a symbolic grave in Lviv. The case of the murder of the professors is currently under investigation by the Institute of National Remembrance. In May 2009, the monument to the victims in Lviv was defaced with red paint bearing the words "Death to the Lachs [Poles]".^[22] On 3 July 2011, a memorial dedicated to the Polish professors murdered by the Gestapo on 4 July 1941 opened in Lviv.^[21]

Victims

Abbreviations used:

UJK = Uniwersytet Jana Kazimierza (Lwów University, now Ivan Franko National University of Lviv)
PSP = Państwowy Szpital Powszechny (National Public Hospital)
PL = Politechnika Lwowska (Lwów Polytechnic, now Lviv Polytechnic National University)
AWL = Akademia Weterynaryjna we Lwowie (Academy of Veterinary Sciences in Lwów)
AHZ = Akademia Handlu Zagranicznego we Lwowie (Academy of Foreign Trade in Lwów)

Murdered in the Wulka hills^[1]

Prof Dr Antoni Cieszyński, Professor of Stomatology UJK
Prof Dr Władysław Dobrzaniecki, head of the ord. Oddz. Chirurgii PSP
Prof Dr Jan Grek, Professor of Internal Medicine, UJK
Maria Grekowa, wife of Jan Grek
Doc Dr Jerzy Grzędzielski, head of the Institute of Ophthalmology, UJK
Prof Dr Edward Hamerski, Chief of Internal Medicine, AWL
Prof Dr Henryk Hilarowicz, Professor of Surgery, UJK
Rev Dr Władysław Komornicki, theologian, a relative of the Ostrowski family
Eugeniusz Kostecki, husband of Prof. Dobrzaniecki's servant
Prof Dr Włodzimierz Krukowski, Chief of the Institute of Electrical Measurement, PL
Prof Dr Roman Longchamps de Bérier, Chief of the Institute of Civil Law, UJK
Bronisław Longchamps de Bérier, son of Prof. Longchamps de Bérier
Zygmunt Longchamps de Bérier, son of Prof. Longchamps de Bérier
Kazimierz Longchamps de Bérier, son of Prof. Longchamps de Bérier
Prof Dr Antoni Łomnicki, Chief of the Institute of Mathematics, PL
Adam Mięsowicz, grandson of Prof. Sołowij
Prof Dr Witold Nowicki, Dean of the Faculty of Anatomy and Pathology, UJK
Dr Med Jerzy Nowicki, assistant at the Institute of Hygiene, UJK, son of Prof. Witold Nowicki
Prof Dr Tadeusz Ostrowski, Chief of the Institute of Surgery, UJK
Jadwiga Ostrowska, wife of Prof. Ostrowski
Prof Dr Stanisław Pilat, Chief of the Institute of Technology of Petroleum and Natural Gases, PL
Prof Dr Stanisław Progulski, pediatrician, UJK
Andrzej Progulski, son of Prof. Progulski
Prof Dr Roman Rencki, Chief of the Institute of Internal Medicine, UJK
Dr Med Stanisław Ruff, Chief of the Department of Surgery of the Jewish Hospital
Anna Ruffowa, Dr Ruff's wife
Inż. Adam Ruff, Dr Ruff's son
Prof Dr Włodzimierz Sieradzki, Dean of the faculty of Court Medicine, UJK
Prof Dr Adam Sołowij, former Chief of the Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics of the PSP
Prof Dr Włodzimierz Stożek, Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics, PL
Inż. Eustachy Stożek, assistant at the Politechnika Lwowska, son of Prof Włodzimierz Stożek
Emanuel Stożek, son of Prof Włodzimierz Stożek
Dr. Tadeusz Tapkowski, lawyer
Prof Dr Kazimierz Vetulani, Dean of the Faculty of Theoretical Mechanics, PL
Prof Dr Kasper Weigel, Chief of the Institute of Measures, PL
Mgr Józef Weigel, son of Prof Kasper Weigel
Prof Dr Roman Witkiewicz, Chief of the Institute of Machinery, PL
Prof Dr Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński, writer and gynaecologist, Chief of the Institute of French Literature

Murdered in the courtyard of Bursa Abrahamowiczów, a former school in Lviv, now a hospital

Katarzyna Demko, English language teacher
Dr Stanisław Mączewski, head of the Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics of the PSP
Maria Reymanowa, nurse
Wolisch (forename unknown), merchant

Murdered on 12 July

Prof Dr Henryk Korowicz, Chief of the Institute of Economics, AHZ
Prof Dr Stanisław Ruziewicz, Chief of the Institute of Mathematics, AHZ

Murdered on 26 July in Brygidki Prison

Prof Dr Kazimierz Bartel, former Prime Minister of Poland, former Rector of PL, Chairman of the Department of Geometry, PL

References

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Józef Krętosz (2012). Likwidacja kadry naukowej Lwowa w lipcu 1941 roku (PDF). Ed. by Krystyna Heska-Kwaśniewicz, Alicja Ratuszna & Ewa Żurawska. Uniwersytet Śląski. pp. 13–21. Archived from the original (PDF file, direct download 5.62 MB) on 13 December 2014. Retrieved 12 December 2014. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
^ Schenk, Dieter (2007). Der Lemberger Professorenmord und der Holocaust in Ostgalizien. Bonn: Dietz. ISBN 978-3-8012-5033-1. OCLC 839060671.
^ Zygmunt Albert, Kaźń profesorów lwowskich w lipcu 1941 roku, Warszawa 2004. (in Polish)
^ Mały Rocznik Statystyczny 1939 (Polish statistical yearbook of 1939), GUS, Warsaw, 1939
^ Roger Dale Petersen, Understanding ethnic violence: fear, hatred, and resentment in twentieth-century Eastern Europe, Cambridge University Press, 2002, p. 124
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Aneks do Informacji o działalności Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej – Komisji Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu od 1 stycznia do 31 grudnia 2006 r., Oddziałowa Komisja w Rzeszowie, zbrodnie nazistowskie, sygn. akt S 5/03/Zn, pp. 36–37
^ Zygmunt Albert, Kaźń profesorów lwowskich – lipiec 1941/studia oraz relacje i dokumenty zebrane i oprac. przez Zygmunta Alberta Wrocław 1989, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego; ISBN 83-229-0351-0, s. 180–181
^ IPN — Oddziałowa Komisja w Rzeszowie, "Śledztwo w sprawie zabójstwa profesorów polskich wyższych uczelni, członków ich rodzin oraz współmieszkańców, we Lwowie w lipcu 1941 roku, podjęte na nowo z umorzenia w dniu 25 lutego 2003 roku. sygn. S 5/03/Zn", "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 11 June 2011. Retrieved 5 June 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Archived copy at WebCite (November 18, 2005).
^ Grzegorz Hryciuk, Mordy w więzieniach Lwowskich w czerwcu 1941 roku, Wrocławskie studia z historii najnowszej, vol. 7, Instytut Historyczny Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, 1997, p. 64
^ When the front was approaching Lwów, the Russians shot some of the prisoners. Rencki managed to hide in the cell, and during the German bombing escaped from the prison. [in:] Wanda Wojtkiewicz-Rok, W 65. rocznicę kaźni profesorów lwowskich Archived 2011-07-11 at the Wayback Machine, Gazeta Akademii Medycznej we Wrocławiu; accessed 4 December 2014.
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^ The decision regarding Kazimierz Bartel, former Polish Prime Minister, was taken by Heinrich Himmler.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Wacław Szulc Wyniki śledztwa w sprawie mordu profesorów lwowskich, prowadzonego przez Główną Komisję Badania Zbrodni Hitlerowskich w: Zygmunt Albert Kaźń profesorów lwowskich – lipiec 1941/studia oraz relacje i dokumenty zebrane i oprac. przez Zygmunta Alberta Wrocław 1989, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego; ISBN 83-229-0351-0, s. 177–185 (in Polish); main article in English, German and Russian.
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^ Yurkevich, Myroslav (1986). "Galician Ukrainians in German Military Formation and ing the German Administration". In Yuri Boshyk; Roman Waschuk; Andriy Wynnyckyj (eds.). Ukraine during World War II: history and its aftermath: a symposium. Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies. pp. 83–. ISBN 978-0-920862-36-0.
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External links

Murder of Lwow professors
report of an ongoing investigation by^{[dead link]} IPN (in Polish)
Zygmunt Albert – Mord Profesorów Lwowskich w lipcu 1941 roku (in Polish)

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[J.K.2012-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Józef Krętosz (2012). Likwidacja kadry naukowej Lwowa w lipcu 1941 roku (PDF). Ed. by Krystyna Heska-Kwaśniewicz, Alicja Ratuszna & Ewa Żurawska. Uniwersytet Śląski. pp. 13–21. Archived from the original (PDF file, direct download 5.62 MB) on 13 December 2014. Retrieved 12 December 2014. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)

[2] Schenk, Dieter (2007). Der Lemberger Professorenmord und der Holocaust in Ostgalizien. Bonn: Dietz. ISBN 978-3-8012-5033-1. OCLC 839060671.

[3] Zygmunt Albert, Kaźń profesorów lwowskich w lipcu 1941 roku, Warszawa 2004. (in Polish)

[4] Mały Rocznik Statystyczny 1939 (Polish statistical yearbook of 1939), GUS, Warsaw, 1939

[5] Roger Dale Petersen, Understanding ethnic violence: fear, hatred, and resentment in twentieth-century Eastern Europe, Cambridge University Press, 2002, p. 124

[IPN-6] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Aneks do Informacji o działalności Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej – Komisji Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu od 1 stycznia do 31 grudnia 2006 r., Oddziałowa Komisja w Rzeszowie, zbrodnie nazistowskie, sygn. akt S 5/03/Zn, pp. 36–37

[7] Zygmunt Albert, Kaźń profesorów lwowskich – lipiec 1941/studia oraz relacje i dokumenty zebrane i oprac. przez Zygmunta Alberta Wrocław 1989, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego; ISBN 83-229-0351-0, s. 180–181

[8] IPN — Oddziałowa Komisja w Rzeszowie, "Śledztwo w sprawie zabójstwa profesorów polskich wyższych uczelni, członków ich rodzin oraz współmieszkańców, we Lwowie w lipcu 1941 roku, podjęte na nowo z umorzenia w dniu 25 lutego 2003 roku. sygn. S 5/03/Zn", "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 11 June 2011. Retrieved 5 June 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Archived copy at WebCite (November 18, 2005).

[9] Grzegorz Hryciuk, Mordy w więzieniach Lwowskich w czerwcu 1941 roku, Wrocławskie studia z historii najnowszej, vol. 7, Instytut Historyczny Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, 1997, p. 64

[10] When the front was approaching Lwów, the Russians shot some of the prisoners. Rencki managed to hide in the cell, and during the German bombing escaped from the prison. [in:] Wanda Wojtkiewicz-Rok, W 65. rocznicę kaźni profesorów lwowskich Archived 2011-07-11 at the Wayback Machine, Gazeta Akademii Medycznej we Wrocławiu; accessed 4 December 2014.

[11] Jak ginęły elity Rzeczypospolitej, dziennik.krakow.pl, 23 April 2007.

[12] Krakowscy i wrocławscy akademicy na wzgórzach wuleckich we Lwowie, Alma Mater nr 33/2001 Archived 2009-07-08 at the Wayback Machine, www3.uj.edu.pl; accessed 4 December 2014.

[13] The decision regarding Kazimierz Bartel, former Polish Prime Minister, was taken by Heinrich Himmler.

[wacsz-14] Jump up to: ^a ^b Wacław Szulc Wyniki śledztwa w sprawie mordu profesorów lwowskich, prowadzonego przez Główną Komisję Badania Zbrodni Hitlerowskich w: Zygmunt Albert Kaźń profesorów lwowskich – lipiec 1941/studia oraz relacje i dokumenty zebrane i oprac. przez Zygmunta Alberta Wrocław 1989, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego; ISBN 83-229-0351-0, s. 177–185 (in Polish); main article in English, German and Russian.

[15] Gente magazine, issue 2417 Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine, gente.com.ar; accessed 4 December 2014. (in Spanish)

[Piotrowski2007-16] Jump up to: ^a ^b Tadeusz Piotrowski (January 2007). Poland's holocaust: ethnic strife, collaboration with occupying forces and genocide in the Second Republic, 1918–1947. McFarland. pp. 208–211. ISBN 978-0-7864-2913-4. Retrieved 11 March 2011.

[BoshykWaschuk1986-17] Yurkevich, Myroslav (1986). "Galician Ukrainians in German Military Formation and ing the German Administration". In Yuri Boshyk; Roman Waschuk; Andriy Wynnyckyj (eds.). Ukraine during World War II: history and its aftermath: a symposium. Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies. pp. 83–. ISBN 978-0-920862-36-0.

[Lewytzkyj1984-18] Borys Lewytzkyj (1984). Politics and society in Soviet Ukraine, 1953–1980. CIUS Press. pp. 42–. ISBN 978-0-920862-33-9. Retrieved 11 March 2011.

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Polish self-defence centres in Volhynia	Huta Stepańska Kurdybań Warkowicki Kuty (in Volhynia) Pańska Dolina Przebraże Stara Huta
Remainder of present-day Ukraine	Ukrainian Katyn List Bykivnia Kharkiv Piatykhatky Starobilsk Vinnytsia
Pre-war Polish Nowogródek, Polesie and eastern parts of Wilno and Białystok Voivodeships (present-day Belarus)	Berezwecz Brzostowica Mała Mokrany Naliboki Naumowicze Nowogródek Wilejka Wołożyn
Remainder of present-day Belarus	Belarusian Katyn List Chervyen Kurapaty
Wilno Region Proper in the pre-war Polish Wilno Voivodeship (present-day Lithuania)	Glinciszki Koniuchy Ponary Święciany Wilno (Łukiszki)
Present-day Russia	Katyń Kozelsk Katyn Kalinin Mednoye Ostashkov Palmnicken (present-day Yantarny)
Present-day Germany	Arnsberg Forest Gardelegen Horka Poppenhausen
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Massacre of Lwów professors

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Aftermath