Hujowa Górka
Hujowa Górka (sometimes Chujowa Górka) is a place near Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp, where in April 1944 the Nazis exhumed and incinerated the bodies of around ten thousand previously killed Jews, in order to hide the evidence of the crime before withdrawal. The place takes its name from the surname of Unterscharführer Albert Hujar (also Huyar) who used to commit and direct the executions.[1] It is also a mockery of Hujar's surname, which in the Polish language is pronounced the same as a vulgar expression for "penis"; the English equivalent is a slang meaning of "prick", hence Polish for "Prick Hill".[2]
Albert Hujar, who served in the Schutzstaffel (SS) Concentration Camp service, is portrayed in the 1993 epic drama Schindler's List by Norbert Weisser. The film, shot in Kraków over 72 days, was directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg.
References
- ^ Offen, Sam (2005). When Hope Prevails: The Personal Triumph of a Holocaust Survivor. Nelson Publishing. p. 42. ISBN 1-928623-59-X. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
- ^ Józef Bau (1991). "Czas Zbeszczeszczenia" (in Polish). Dekada Literacka. Retrieved March 31, 2013.