Płaszów

Płaszów is a district of Cracow close which Kraków-Płaszów was established, a Camp of work forced in Poland ( Zwangsarbeitslager Plaszow of the S - und Polizeiführers im Distrikt Krakau ), transformed then into Concentration camp Nazi ( Konzentrationslager Plaszow EIB Krakau ) in 1944, date on which it reaches his maximum extension. It was created for the Jewish population Ghetto of Cracow after the liquidation of this last.

The district of Cracow

Płaszów is located in the thirteenth administrative district. The first administrative mentions concerning the village of Płaszów are in the documents of the year 1254. In 1912, Płaszów was joined to Cracow. One of the most important monuments of this district is the Tertre of Krakus whose origins are probably Celtic and go back to the year 500 av. J. - C. Just at side one can find the camp of work Nazi, to which is devoted the remainder of this article.

The camp of Kraków-Płaszów

The camp of work was created in December 1942 in the southern suburbs of Cracow, in Poland, on two old Jewish cemeteries. The commander was the Hauptsturmführer S Amon Göth. The March 13rd and 14th 1943 Amon Göth supervises in person the liquidation of the ghetto of Cracow and makes gather the inhabitants with Płaszów. It had under its orders of the personnel man and women of the S to the number of which one counted Gertrud Heise, Luise Danz, Alice Orlowski and Anna Gerwing.

The camp was initially a Camp of work which provided labor to various arms factories and a stone quarry. Death rate was extremely high there. Many prisoners whose women and children died there of the Typhus, of hunger or carried out. The living conditions also worsened because of cruelty and of the sadism of the commander Amon Göth who directed the camp between February 1943 and September 1944. It is estimated that 50 000 people on the whole would have passed by Płaszów, and that there was at least 9 000 dead (figure corresponding to the bodies found in the pits then burned at the summer 1944 by the units charged to make disappear traces from massive death Nazi).

In January 1945, the prisoners who were still in life and the personnel left the camp in a Marche of dead the which led them to Auschwitz, and those which survived it were gauzes on arrival. The Red Army opened the camp, then empties, the January 20th 1945.

Documentation

There exists a certain number of photographs of Płaszów, taken by S but also by the commander of the camp Some can be consulted in the files of Yad Vashem.

See too

List of the concentration camps Nazis
Amon Göth
Oskar Schindler
the list of Schindler: the camp appearing in film is the reconstitution of Płaszów.

Bonds

air of the camp

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