Hujowa Górka
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Hujowa Górka is a place near Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp, where in April 1944 the Nazis exhumed and burnt the bodies of around ten thousand previously killed Jews
. The place takes its name from the surname of Unterscharführer
Albert Hujar, who is portrayed by Norbert Weisser
in Schindler's List
and who ordered the original executions. It is also a mockery of Hujar's surname, meaning "Prick's Hill" in Polish
.
Jews
The Jews , also known as the Jewish people, are a nation and ethnoreligious group originating in the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East. The Jewish ethnicity, nationality, and religion are strongly interrelated, as Judaism is the traditional faith of the Jewish nation...
. The place takes its name from the surname of Unterscharführer
Unterscharführer
Unterscharführer was a paramilitary rank of the Nazi Party used by the Schutzstaffel between 1934 and 1945. The SS rank was created after the Night of the Long Knives...
Albert Hujar, who is portrayed by Norbert Weisser
Norbert Weisser
Norbert Weisser is a German-born American film and theatre actor, probably most known for his many roles in Albert Pyun-directed films ....
in Schindler's List
Schindler's List
Schindler's List is a 1993 American film about Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved the lives of more than a thousand mostly Polish-Jewish refugees during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories. The film was directed by Steven Spielberg, and based on the novel Schindler's Ark...
and who ordered the original executions. It is also a mockery of Hujar's surname, meaning "Prick's Hill" in Polish
Polish language
Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...
.