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Krychów is a village neighbourhood ( pl, kolonia) in the administrative district of
The camp in Krychów was set up by the Germans in place of a small correctional facility for short-term offenders founded in 1935 in interwar Poland, which was a branch of the Chełm prison. The prewar inmates were released by Polish administration already at the time of the invasion of Poland in the first days of September 1939 and the correctional centre stood empty. The Germans set up a Jewish camp there for around 1,500 men and women who were forced to build farms for the German "colonists".Aktion Reinhard Camps.
Sobibor Labour Camps.
' 15 June 2006. ARC Website. It was a main branch of several camps in
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Gmina Hańsk
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Gmina Hańsk is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Włodawa County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. Its seat is the village of Hańsk, which lies approximately south-west of Włodawa and east of the regional capital Lu ...
, within Włodawa County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. In 1975–98 the settlement belonged administratively to Chełm Voivodeship
Chełm Voivodeship () was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in years 1975–1998, superseded by Lublin Voivodeship. Its capital city was Chełm.
Major cities and towns (population in 1995)
* Chełm (69,100)
* K ...
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World War II
During occupation of Poland in World War II, Krychów was the location of a Nazi forced labour camp established in 1940 for the Polish Jews, with several sub-camps.
The camp in Krychów was set up by the Germans in place of a small correctional facility for short-term offenders founded in 1935 in interwar Poland, which was a branch of the Chełm prison. The prewar inmates were released by Polish administration already at the time of the invasion of Poland in the first days of September 1939 and the correctional centre stood empty. The Germans set up a Jewish camp there for around 1,500 men and women who were forced to build farms for the German "colonists".Aktion Reinhard Camps. Sobibor Labour Camps.
' 15 June 2006. ARC Website. It was a main branch of several camps in
Gmina
The gmina (Polish: , plural ''gminy'' , from German ''Gemeinde'' meaning ''commune'') is the principal unit of the administrative division of Poland, similar to a municipality. , there were 2,477 gminas throughout the country, encompassing over 4 ...
Hańsk including Krychów, Hańsk-Dwór, Osowa
Osowa (german: Espenkrug; csb, Òsowô) is a neighborhood (in the past village suburb) of Gdańsk, Poland, located about north-west from the center of the city. Mainly filled with family houses, Osowa Lake with sandy beaches and a water sport c ...
, and Ujazdów, for the innocuous captives expelled from the neighbouring settlements.
The camp in Krychów was managed by the Nazi German administration of the General Plan East
The ''Generalplan Ost'' (; en, Master Plan for the East), abbreviated GPO, was the Nazi German government's plan for the genocide and ethnic cleansing on a vast scale, and colonization of Central and Eastern Europe by Germans. It was to be unde ...
preparing latifundia for the colonists brought in ''Heim ins Reich
The ''Heim ins Reich'' (; meaning "back home to the Reich") was a foreign policy pursued by Adolf Hitler before and during World War II, beginning in 1938. The aim of Hitler's initiative was to convince all ''Volksdeutsche'' (ethnic Germans) wh ...
'' (Home into the Empire) from among the foreign '' Volksdeutsche''. Due to proximity of the Sobibór extermination camp many of the Jews who dug the irrigation ditches in these camps were simply marched under the German guard for extermination by gassing at Sobibór, along with the imprisoned Romani people.
Geography
Krychów is located at the heart of '' Pojezierze Łęczyńsko-Włodawskie'' characterized by profusion of marshlands and meadows. There is less arable land here than in other areas of the central-Polish lowland. It is a legally protected area, a part of the Sobibór Landscape Park criss-crossed with hiking and biking trails for tourists.References
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