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Salomon Morel

1919 - 2007

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Salomon Morel (November 15, 1919 – February 14, 2007) was an officer in the Ministry of Public Security in the Polish People's Republic, and a commander of concentration camps run by the NKVD and communist authorities until 1956. After Nazi Germany occupied Poland, Morel and his family went into hiding to avoid being placed in one of the Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Poland. Both Salomon and his brother survived part of the war and Holocaust under the protection of a local Polish farmer, before joining communist partisans. In 1944 Morel became warden of the Soviet NKVD prison at Lublin Castle. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Salomon Morel is the 45th most popular mafioso (down from 42nd in 2019), the 659th most popular biography from Poland (down from 638th in 2019) and the most popular Polish Mafioso.

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Among MAFIOSOS

Among mafiosos, Salomon Morel ranks 45 out of 70. Before him are Salvatore Maranzano, Du Yuesheng, Richard Kuklinski, Russell Bufalino, Vyacheslav Ivankov, and Robert Hanssen. After him are Giuseppe Morello, Dutch Schultz, Belle Starr, Teresa Claramunt Creus, Sammy Gravano, and Joseph Colombo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Salomon Morel ranks 147. Before him are Beate Uhse-Rotermund, James H. Wilkinson, Briek Schotte, Paul de Man, Lisa Della Casa, and Anne Buydens. After him are Robert Stack, Paavo Aaltonen, Mariano Martín, Werner Goldberg, Igor Gouzenko, and Pál Losonczi. Among people deceased in 2007, Salomon Morel ranks 168. Before him are Holden Roberto, Parry O'Brien, Carl-Henning Pedersen, Lee Hazlewood, Awad Hamed al-Bandar, and Andrew Hill. After him are Toulo de Graffenried, Gohar Gasparyan, Marianne Fredriksson, Robert Taylor, Claude Pompidou, and Ladislav Adamec.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Salomon Morel ranks 659 out of 1,694. Before him are Kurt Sanderling (1912), Władysław Żmuda (1954), Emil Leon Post (1897), Tadeusz Kutrzeba (1885), Leopold Okulicki (1898), and Stefanie Zweig (1932). After him are Janusz Kusociński (1907), Peter Yorck von Wartenburg (1904), Martin Rathke (1793), Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin (1922), Józef Glemp (1929), and Theodor Kaluza (1885).

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Among MAFIOSOS In Poland

Among mafiosos born in Poland, Salomon Morel ranks 1. 

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