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• Title:
  An archaeology of the Pomeranian Crime of 1939 – the case of mass crimes in the Szpęgawski Forest (Poland)
• Creator:
  Kobiałka, Dawid;
  Ceran, Tomasz;
  Mazanowska, Izabela;
  Wysocka, Joanna;
  Czarnik, Michał;
  Nita, Daniel;
  Kostyrko, Mikołaj;
  Jankowski, Tomasz
• Contributor:
  Uniwersytet Łódzki, Wydział Filologiczny, Katedra Archeologii Historycznej i Bronioznawstwa;
  Institute of National Remembrance, Ul. Wincentyny Teskowej 1, 85-140, Bydgoszcz, Poland;
  Department of Anthropology, Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Weigla 12, 53-114, Wrocław, Poland;
  Doctoral School of the University of Rzeszów, Institute of Archaeology, University of Rzeszów, St Rejtana 16C, 35-959, Rzeszów, Poland;
  Independent Researcher, Sępólno Krajeńskie, Poland;
  Independent Researcher, Poznań, Poland;
  Institute of National Remembrance, Aleja Grunwaldzka 216, 80-266, Gdansk, Poland;
  dawid.kobialka@filhist.uni.lodz.pl
• Description:
  This article presents the general historical context of the mass shootings in the fall of 1939 in the pre-war Gdańsk Pomerania, Poland, and introduces the very term “Pomeranian Crime of 1939.” The executions in the Szpęgawski Forest, where between 2,413 and 7,000 people lost their lives, illustrate of the process itself. The results of archaeological research carried out at the site of the mass killings in the Szpęgawski Forest in 2023 is used as a case study. Archaeological research is shedding new light on the crime and its cover-up through analyses of the material evidence.;
  The project is funded by the National Science Centre, Poland (UMO-2021/43/D/HS3/00033).
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Uznanie autorstwa 4.0 Międzynarodowe;
  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
• Date:
  2024.01.24;
  2024
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Springer Nature
• Relation:
  International Journal of Historical Archaeology;
• Subject:
  archaeology;
  history;
  ethnography;
  Second World War;
  mass grave
• Identifier:
  Kobiałka, D., Ceran, T., Mazanowska, I. et al. An Archaeology of the Pomeranian Crime of 1939: The Case of Mass Crimes in the Szpęgawski Forest (Poland). Int J Histor Archaeol (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10761-023-00718-2;
  1092-7697;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/49925 ;
  1573-7748;
  10.1007/s10761-023-00718-2
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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