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A forced labor camp, Krakau-Plaszow was originally established in the Podgorze section of Cracow, in December 1942, on the site of two old Jewish cemeteries. By February 1943 there were about 2,000 inmates and after liquidation of the Cracow ghetto its population had swelled up to over 10,000. In July 1943 a separate section was created for Polish workers. From January 11th, 1944 until its liquidation on January 15th, 1945, Krakau-Plaszow functioned as an independent concentration camp which included several subcamps. The camp was headed by four men in following sequence: SS-Unterscharführer Horst Pilarzyk, SS-Oberscharführer Müller, Amon Goeth (tried and hanged in Poland after the war) and Kurt Schupke. In the fall of 1944 Germans had begun transferring inmates to the camps of Auschwitz, Stutthof, Mauthausen, and Ravensbruck. Towards the end, the SS tried to obliterate any traces of mass murder and ordered the bodies in mass graves exhumed and burned. On January 17, 1945 the area was liberated by the Soviet Army. (en-US)

Fonte

Pilichowski, Czeslaw. Obozy hitlerowskie na ziemiach polskich 1939-1945: Informator encyklopedyczny = Nazi Camps in Poland 1939-1945: Dictionary and Encyclopedia. Warszawa: Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe Warszawa, 1979. (4 fold maps). p. 390-391

Termini più generici

• Cracovia (Polonia : Voivodship)