Plaszow

Plaszow

Polish  Płaszów 

      Nazi (Nazi Party) German concentration camp near Kraków, in German-occupied Poland, used chiefly as a forced-labour centre.

      Opened in June 1942, the camp was the main forced-labour camp for Jews rounded up from the general region of Kraków and, later, for Jews from Hungary. At its peak, it held some 20,000 or more inmates, including hundreds of Roma (Gypsies) and Polish prisoners from the Warsaw Uprising (August-October 1944). Brutal labour in local industries and stone quarries, together with poor food and sanitation, caused a heavy death toll. During the final deportation of the Jews of Kraków in March 1943, Plaszow was used as a mass burial centre. Although most of the Jews of Kraków were sent to Belzec, where they were murdered, approximately 8,000 were sent to Plaszow. Attempting to erase evidence of the camp in the final months of 1944, the Nazis deported many prisoners to Auschwitz and other concentration camps, burned some 9,000 exhumed bodies, and destroyed many of the installations. When the Soviet army arrived in January 1945, only about 600 prisoners remained alive, though the German entrepreneur Oskar Schindler had saved another 1,100 inmates by transferring them to a safer camp in 1944. The commandant of Plaszow, Amon Göth, an SS (Nazi paramilitary corps) officer, was tried and executed in 1946.

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