Płaszów (Polish pronunciation: [ˈpwaʂuf]) or Kraków-Płaszów was a Nazi concentration camp operated by the SS in Płaszów, a southern suburb of Kraków,...
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Płaszów is a suburb of Kraków, Poland, now part of Podgórze district. Formerly a separate village, it became a part of the Greater Kraków in 1911 under...
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Amon Göth (category Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp personnel)
and war criminal. He served as the commandant of the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp in Płaszów in German-occupied Poland for most of the camp's existence...
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Government in occupied Poland between 1942–1944. Kraków Płaszów (Julag I) Kraków Prokocim (Julag II) Kraków Bieżanow (Julag III) so-called Kabel camp established...
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Oskar Schindler (category Kraków Ghetto)
Schindler convinced SS-Hauptsturmführer Amon Göth, commandant of the nearby Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp, to allow him to move his factory to Brněnec/Brünnlitz...
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concentration camp List of subcamps of Kauen Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp List of subcamps of Kraków-Płaszów Majdanek concentration camp List of subcamps...
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Kraków Płaszów railway station is a railway station in Płaszów, a suburb of Kraków (Lesser Poland), Poland. As of 2022, it is served by Koleje Małopolskie...
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Mietek Pemper (category Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp survivors)
administration at the Kraków University of Economics simultaneously. Pemper was 19 years old when Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939. All Jews in Kraków, including...
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Helen Jonas-Rosenzweig (category Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp survivors)
World War II at the Płaszów concentration camp where she was forced to work as a maid for SS camp commandant Amon Göth. Born in Kraków, she survived the...
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Flossenbürg Sachsenhausen Buchenwald Neuengamme Auschwitz Majdanek Kraków-Płaszów Natzweiler-Struthof Stutthof Bergen-Belsen Gross-Rosen Mittelbau Warsaw...
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the Kraków Ghetto was liquidated, and the remaining Mosberg family was moved to the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp in Płaszów just south of Kraków, a...
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Diana Reiter (category People who died in Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp)
she was one of the first female architects in Kraków. In 1943, she was killed at the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp during the Holocaust. Born in...
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Dachau Flossenbürg Gross-Rosen Herzogenbusch Hinzert Kaiserwald Kauen Kraków-Płaszów Majdanek Mauthausen and Gusen Mittelbau-Dora Natzweiler-Struthof Neuengamme...
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Itzhak Stern (category Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp survivors)
labour) were sent to Płaszów, including Schindler's workers and Stern. The rest were sent to various death camps across Poland. In Płaszów, Stern and his brother...
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tunnel under Kraków Główny railway station with two underground stops and a 0.6 kilometres (0.37 mi) long overpass over Kraków Płaszów rail station....
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Arnold Büscher (category Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp personnel)
Holding the rank of SS-Obersturmführer, he served as a commandant of the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp, succeeding Amon Göth, from September 1944 until...
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Hujowa Górka (category Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp)
or Chujowa Górka, rarely ”Kozia Górka”) is a place near the site of Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp, where in April 1944 the Nazis exhumed and incinerated...
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Congregation and was ordained a priest in 1945. He was a rector in Kraków-Płaszów, in Tarnów and a professor at the Catholic University of Lublin. In...
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Alice Orlowski (category Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp personnel)
sent Orlowski to the notorious Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp near Kraków, in German-occupied Poland. In Plaszow-Kraków, Orlowski was in charge of a...
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Natalia Karp (category Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp survivors)
after the death of her husband in a bomb raid, Karp was sent to the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp where she came into contact with Amon Göth. On his...
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Simon Wiesenthal (category Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp survivors)
the Janowska concentration camp (late 1941 to September 1944), the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp (September to October 1944), the Gross-Rosen concentration...
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Julius Madritsch (category Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp)
Madritsch even set up new workshops including at Płaszów concentration camp (in 1943 after the Kraków Ghetto was liquidated and closed), Bochnia Ghetto...
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murder (liquidations of the ghettos at Tarnów and Kraków, the camp at Szebnie, the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp, as portrayed in the film Schindler's...
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Poldek Pfefferberg (category Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp survivors)
Pfefferberg was employed in Schindler's factory near the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp outside Kraków. This enabled him to survive the extermination of 3...
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concentration camps like Płaszów. However, the city was spared from destruction. In 1978, Karol Wojtyła, archbishop of Kraków, was elevated to the papacy...
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cemeteries formed the site of the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp during the Holocaust and no longer exist. The Jews from the Kraków Ghetto were sent there. Following...
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liquidate the Kraków Ghetto, and eventually become one of two commandants of the Płaszów camp. Approximately 10,000 Jews were sent to Płaszów immediately...
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Leo Rosner (category Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp survivors)
deported to Płaszów concentration camp without her. Helen and her sister, Janka, were deported to the Płaszów that March. While at Płaszów, Rosner, along...
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Gena Turgel (category Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp survivors)
Gena, her mother, and her sisters Miriam and Hela were sent to the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp. Turgel's sister Miriam and her husband were shot...
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Leon Leyson (category Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp survivors)
moved to Kraków for better job opportunities. Leib began to experience overt antisemitism for the first time attending public school in Kraków. A year...
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