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Solomon Morel was a Polish-born NKVD officer and later a Polish intelligence agent who ran prison camps in Poland after World War II. Having lost his entire family in the Holocaust, he became a staunch Stalinist after the war. Morel was responsible for the deaths of approximately 1,500 prisoners in Upper Silesia, most of whom were Germans and Volksdeutsche collaborators, as an act of revenge. Witnesses claimed he would personally crush prisoners’ skulls and throw them out of windows. Following the anti-Stalinist purges in Poland in 1968, he was forced to retire. After the fall of communism, Poland sought to imprison him, but he fled to Israel.