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Death and life Valley. Environmental memory of the Pomeranian Crime of 1939 in Chojnice
(Polskie Towarzystwo Ludoznawcze; Komitet Nauk Etnologicznych PAN, 2023)
The article concerns the environmental histories of Death Valley, Chojnice, Poland, the execution site from the Second World War. The authors discuss the historical and archaeological evidence related to German mass crimes ...
An archaeology of the Pomeranian Crime of 1939 – the case of mass crimes in the Szpęgawski Forest (Poland)
(Springer Nature, 2024)
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 ...
„The dead sleep here” – the history, archaeology and ethnography of Chojnice’s Death Valley
(Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, Wydział Archeologii, 2023)
Death Valley in Chojnice, Poland, is a mass murder site from World War II where Germans and various officials of the Third Reich organised and carried out mass executions of Poles. The site and the events that took place ...
“We Found People…” The Discovery, Research, Experiences and Artistic Documentation of Mass Graves from 1945 in Death Valley in Chojnice, Poland
(Equinox, 2023)
Death Valley in Chojnice, Poland, is the site of mass crimes committed by officers of the Third Reich against citizens of the Second Polish Republic during World War II. This photo essay describes the circumstances of the ...
An archaeology of the Pomeranian Crime of 1939: collecting the material evidence
(Cambridge University Press, 2024)
‘An archaeology of the Pomeranian Crime of 1939’ is a multidisciplinary scientific project that focuses on collecting the material evidence of the Nazi German mass execution committed in the first months of the Second World ...
Unearthing the shadows of history: Chemical traces of Second World War atrocities in the Szpęgawski Forest and Death Valley, Poland
(Wiley, 2004-07-25)
This article presents the results of analyses of the chemical composition of organic matter and the occurrence of characteristic geochemical and biochemical markers in 17 samples collected from the Second World War mass ...
Necroviolence in the archaeological evidence. Mass crimes in the Szpęgawski Forest, Poland and the materiality of Aktion 1005
(Taylor & Francis, 2024)
The first few months of Second World War were marked by numerous mass crimes against humanity committed by Third Reich civil servants on citizens of the Second Polish Republic – local intelligentsia, people with mental ...