Szymon Datner

Szymon Datner (2 February 1902 – 8 December 1989) was a Polish historian, Holocaust survivor and underground operative from Białystok,[1] who was born in Kraków and died in Warsaw.

[citation needed] After the war, Datner served for two years as head of the Białystok branch of the Central Committee of Jews in Poland (CŻKH).

In 1969–70 he presided over Warsaw's Jewish Historical Institute, and he was one of the historians at the Main Commission to Investigate Hitlerite Crimes [pl].

[5] According to Bernd Wegner, Datner drew up the most comprehensive documentation of Nazi Germany's war crimes and atrocities in eastern Poland.

Andrzej Żbikowski [pl] states that Datner wrote in similar vain to authors engaging in "heroic-martyrological discourse".