Kulmhof – Monument. (Fot. Jan Mehlich) About Kulmhof was the first extermination camp founded by the Nazis on the territory of Poland, it was founded in 1941 in Chełmno on the riverside of Ner river. The Nazis adopted a town park with a palace as a main camp base, while a few surrounding buildings were converted […]
Picture Source: www.gross-rosen.eu About Gross Rosen Concentration Camp Gross Rosen is Nazi concentration camp founded in 1940, near the Rogoznica village. During war those territories belonged to Germany. Nowadays it lays in Polish province Lower Silesia. Gross Rosen was first of all a labor camp. Among the prisoners there wasn’t many Jews. Poles belonged to […]
Amon Goeth was one of the most cruel Nazi criminals during World War II. He joined SS forces when he was only 22. It was the beginning of his “carrier”. He became famous as a commandant of Plaszow extermination camp. The best description of that beast are words of Jew who survived thank to Oscar […]
Plaszow is a Krakow district where in 1942 was founded Nazi labor camp and later also extermination camp. It was a place of torment for thousands of Jews from the liquidated in October 1942 Krakow Ghetto. Plaszow camp is famous because of Spielberg’s “Schindler’s List”. Territory of Plaszow camp in Krakow contained many factories, industrial […]
To keep humanity Prisoners are returning from work In Auschwitz Museum visitors can see exhibitions devoted to art created by prisoners of the concentration camp. This is one of the most touching parts of the museum. It shows that even in inhuman conditions people needed aesthetic experiences, beauty and emotions. Making art was a way […]
About Treblinka Concentration Camp The camp near the Poniatowo village, better known as Treblinka, is second of the best-known German concentration camps in Poland. Many noble people lost their lives there for example Janusz Korczak, Artur Gold or Bruno Winawer. Camp was divided for two parts – labour-camp and extermination camp. The labour-camp came into […]
Monument of Jewish Mother with Child Sobibor Extermination Camp SS-Sonderkommando Sobibor was an extermination camp, founded in the same time as Belzec and Treblinka, in 1942 during the Einsatz Reinhard – the German action of extermination Jewish nation. It was built by prisoners near the Sobibor village in the neighborhood of railroad trail between Chelm […]
Crematory in Majdanek – Majdanek Concentration Camp Majdanek Concentration Camp The official name is Konzentrationslager Lublin (Concentration Camp Lublin). Colloquial name has came from the name of Lublin’s district – Majdan Tatarski where the camp was founded. In the beginning Majdanek was a small camp for POW‘s, later for Jews displacement from Zamojszczyzna (Region in […]
Belzec Concentration Camp Belzec Monument Made of Railroad Tracks’ Pieces Next to the Auschwitz, Belzec was one of the biggest German extermination camps, created on Polish territory under Nazis occupation. Full name of this camp was Sonderkommando Belzec der Waffen-SS. It was placed near the Belzec village next to the railway trail between Lublin and […]
The Only Way to Freedom… Auschwitz Victims Chimneys of Crematory “The only way to freedom is through the chimney” – it was the most popular Nazi slogan next to “Arbeit Macht Frei” (“Work Brings Freedom”). German soldiers wanted to break the will of prisoners by showing them that there was no chance to survive the […]