Remember. 23 August: Kazimierz Moczarski
Kazimierz Moczarski – a Polish journalist and writer, the author of ‘Conversations with an Executioner’. During the Second World War, he was an active member of the Home Army. In August 1945, Moczarski was arrested by communist authorities and sentenced to ten years in jail. In 1949, a new round of interrogations against him started and finally he was given a death sentence. In a letter to the court, Moczarski lists 49 methods of torture used against him, including his confinement with the German SS commander Jürgen Stroop responsible for the liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto. After Stalin’s death in 1953, Moczarski’s sentence was commuted to life imprisonment but he was not informed of that for another two and a half years. In April 1956, Kazimierz Moczarski was released after spending eleven years in prison and exonerated. Every year on 23 August, the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Totalitarian Regimes, the ENRS recalls those persecuted in the name of totalitarian and authoritarian ideologies. Learn more at: https://enrs.eu/august23 (in English)
Kazimierz Moczarski – a Polish journalist and writer, the author of ‘Conversations with an Executioner’. During the Second World War, he was an active member of the Home Army. In August 1945, Moczarski was arrested by communist authorities and sentenced to ten years in jail. In 1949, a new round of interrogations against him started and finally he was given a death sentence. In a letter to the court, Moczarski lists 49 methods of torture used against him, including his confinement with the German SS commander Jürgen Stroop responsible for the liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto. After Stalin’s death in 1953, Moczarski’s sentence was commuted to life imprisonment but he was not informed of that for another two and a half years. In April 1956, Kazimierz Moczarski was released after spending eleven years in prison and exonerated. Every year on 23 August, the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Totalitarian Regimes, the ENRS recalls those persecuted in the name of totalitarian and authoritarian ideologies. Learn more at: https://enrs.eu/august23 (in English)