Poland wants extradition of Israeli Holocaust survivor over post-war revenge killings

Poland is demanding the extradition from Israel of an elderly Jewish man accused of the deaths of hundreds of Germans in a postwar detention camp. Solomon Morel, 86, faces charges of crimes against humanity in relation to more than 1500 inmates at a camp in southern Poland, many of whom perished in "barbaric" circumstances. The investigation is the first in Poland of a Jew accused of retaliating against the Germans. Israeli officials turned down a previous extradition request six years ago. Morel, who fled to Israel from Poland in 1994 and lives in hiding in Tel Aviv, was held in Auschwitz as a young man. More than 30 members of his family were killed by the Nazis. In November 1945, after the Soviet occupation of Poland began, he was one of many Jews appointed to supervise the "de-Nazification" camps.