Shmuel Krakowski

Shmuel Krakowski, Samuel Krakowski or Stefan Krakowski (; 23 March 1926 – September 2018) was an Israeli historian specializing in the Holocaust in Poland. After surviving the Holocaust, Krakowski worked for the intelligence and security services of the People's Republic of Poland.

Biography Krakowski was born in Warsaw in a Polish-Jewish family to father Baruch and mother Miriam, but grew up in Łódź. He joined the Ministry of Public Security, and in 1946, he was a government agent in the small Zionist Polish Jewish political party ; in 1949, Krakowski was an employee of the Ministry's Department VII (Intelligence). Krakowski also taught courses at the Tel Aviv University. Unequal Victims: Poles and Jews During World War Two (1988 with Yisrael Gutman) Chelmno, A Small Village in Europe: The First Nazi Mass Extermination Camp (2009)