Artur Hojan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Artur Hojan

Date of Birth: 07-Aug-1973

Place of Birth: Głogów, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 09-Feb-2014

Profession: journalist

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Artur Hojan (7 August 1973 – found dead, 9 February 2014) was a journalist and published author specializing in the history of the Chelmno extermination camp and the Nazi involuntary euthanasia programme conducted in the territory of occupied Poland by the SS during World War II.
Hojan was the co-founder of the Tiergartenstrasse4 Association in 2005 (together with Cameron Munro) devoted to Aktion T4 history, with emphasis on the Koscian psychiatric hospital located where he lived.
Hojan, age of 40, left home in the evening of 1 December 2013 at 8 p.m.
for a walk around town and disappeared.
His body was found two months later on 9 February 2014 floating in the Obra canal near the town of Kielczewo, and identified later.
The cause of death has not been determined.
He was buried at the Koscian cemetery on 15 February 2014.
He left behind a wife and young daughter.
The monograph Treblinka Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance by Chris Webb, the co-founder of H.E.A.R.T (also known as the HolocaustResearchProject.org), is dedicated to his memory.