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    During World War II, Trawniki men ([travˈniki]; German: Trawnikimänner) were Central and Eastern European Nazi collaborators, consisting of either volunteers...
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    Trawniki [travˈniki] is a village in Świdnik County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It is the seat of the present-day gmina (administrative district)...
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    The Trawniki concentration camp was set up by Nazi Germany in the village of Trawniki about 40 kilometres (25 mi) southeast of Lublin during the occupation...
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  • Trawniki is a village in Lublin Voivodeship, east Poland, the site of a World War II concentration camp. Trawniki may also refer to the following places:...
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  • 3 April 1920 – 17 March 2012) was a Ukrainian-American who served as a Trawniki man and Nazi camp guard at Sobibor extermination camp, Majdanek, and Flossenbürg...
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    Erntefest) was the murder of up to 43,000 Jews at the Majdanek, Poniatowa and Trawniki concentration camps by the SS, the Order Police battalions, and the Ukrainian...
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  • Trawniki-Kolonia [travˈniki kɔˈlɔɲa] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Trawniki, within Świdnik County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern...
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  • Trawniki is an upstate gmina (administrative district) in Świdnik County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. Its seat is the village of Trawniki,...
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  • at Treblinka. The vast majority of Hiwi guards who were trained at the Trawniki concentration camp facility had to contend with the language barrier. However...
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    division of the Trawniki concentration camp set up in the village of Trawniki southeast of Lublin. They were known as the "Trawniki men" (German: Trawnikimänner)...
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    addition to them, there were about 90 to 120 Ukrainian guards, from the Trawniki men. Their behavior was the main element of uncertainty in the plan. The...
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  • Trawniki [travˈniki] is a village (German: Trawnig, changed between 1934 and 1938 to Grünweide) in the administrative district of Gmina Pawłowiczki, within...
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  • Polish-born Ukrainian who served in the SS and as a guard in the Nazi Trawniki concentration camp during World War II. He eventually became an American...
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    the camps required the labor of less than 3,000 Jewish prisoners, 1,000 Trawniki men (largely Ukrainian auxiliaries), and very few German guards. About...
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  • Yegorovich Shalayev was a Soviet SS auxiliary guard (Hilfswilliger) trained at Trawniki and serving as a gas chamber operator at the Treblinka extermination camp...
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    from Auschwitz-Birkenau. Managed by the German SS with assistance from Trawniki guards – recruited from among Soviet POWs to serve with the Germans – the...
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    by May 1942), and Treblinka (operational by July 1942), with squads of Trawniki men (Eastern European collaborators) overseeing hundreds of Sonderkommando...
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  • Trawniki [travˈniki] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Lubomia, within Wodzisław County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It...
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  • Trawniki [travˈniki] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Smyków, within Końskie County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland...
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    Wild Christian due to the extremity of his behaviour among the SS and Trawniki guards and to the camp inmates and victims. Wirth worked within the Action...
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    Mittelsteine Kraków-Płaszów Lipowa 7 Poniatowa Potulice Soldau Stutthof Szebnie Trawniki Warsaw Death camps and mass murder sites Auschwitz-Birkenau Chełmno Majdanek...
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    Totenkopfverbände (SS-TV) Einsatzgruppen Sturmabteilung (SA) Verfügungstruppe (SS-VT) Wehrmacht Trawniki men Collaborators during World War II Nazi ideologues...
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  • Jakob Reimer (category Trawniki concentration camp)
    Jakob (Jack) Reimer (November 6, 1918 – August 3, 2005) was a Trawniki camp guard who later emigrated to the United States and became a salesman and restaurant...
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    mostly non-German. It consisted of 206 Ukrainian SS personnel from the Trawniki, 600 Germans of the SS-Totenkopfverbände (1943–1944), and a few SS women...
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  • Totenkopfverbände (SS-TV) Einsatzgruppen Sturmabteilung (SA) Verfügungstruppe (SS-VT) Wehrmacht Trawniki men Collaborators during World War II Nazi ideologues...
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    but many forced labour camps continued operations in the area, including Trawniki, Lipowa 7, and Dorohucza.[missing long citation] In 1941, the Nazis began...
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    others were recruited by the SS to engage in genocide. For example, the Trawniki men were recruited from prisoner of war camps; largely ethnic Ukrainians...
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  • separate camps under the command of the Majdanek administration including Trawniki, Krasnik, Pulawy and Poniatowa concentration camps. However, a similar...
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    Karl Streibel (category Trawniki concentration camp)
    October 1903 – 5 August 1986) was the second and last commander of the Trawniki concentration camp – one of the subcamps of the KL Lublin system of Nazi...
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    Totenkopfverbände (SS-TV) Einsatzgruppen Sturmabteilung (SA) Verfügungstruppe (SS-VT) Wehrmacht Trawniki men Collaborators during World War II Nazi ideologues...
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