Germany in 1947. He was liberated from a concentration camp 1945, wandered around for a few months before finding help in a German home

Germany in 1947. He was liberated from a concentration camp 1945, wandered around for a few months before finding help in a German home.

Peter Chemy right before his execution in Germany in 1947. He was liberated from a concentration camp 1945, wandered around for a few months before finding help in a German home

A husband and wife, along with their daughter, fed him and showed him good hospitality. When the family went to sleep, Chemy found a hatchet and murdered them all in their beds.

In 1945, Peter Chemy, a Polish man recently freed from a concentration camp, murdered a sleeping German family who had fed and sheltered him.

 He would be executed at Landsberg Prison, ironically where many of those responsible for his suffering met the same fate. This is Chemy just before his death.

Peter Chemy, a Polish national liberated from a concentration camp by Americans in May 1945, spent the first few months of his freedom adrift in Germany. On a snowy winter night of that year, he found refuge and a meal in the home of a German family: husband, wife, and daughter. After they had gone to sleep, Chemy found a hatchet and murdered them in their beds. He was tried by an American tribunal, sent to Landsberg, and executed by firing squad in January 1947.