Concentration Camps in Poland

Problems

• Camp Plaszow
• Amon Goth

Camp plaszow

• constructed in February 1943
• MAde through forced work
• Those unable to work were shot
• Taken to Auschwitz
• Many died of Typhus, Starvation and execution

Inhabitants of Plaszow

Hujowa Gorka

• A near by hill
• Almost 8,000 inmates were killed there
• They were piled upon each other
• They were burnt
• 17 truckloads of human ashes

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The end of Plaszow

• In 1944 most prisoners were taken to other camps
• in January 1945 the remaining prisoners were taken on death march
• Those who survived the death March were gassed

Amon Goth

• His first assignment was the construction of Plaszow
• He also saw the liquidation of two concentration camps
• his dogs were trained to tear and maul the inmates to death
• He once shot a jewish cook because his soup was too hot

Joseph Balicki would be dead

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