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 the
Austrian Partition of Poland as the 21st
cadastral district of the city. During
World War II, it was the location of
Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp for Jews deported from the
Kraków Ghetto
The Kraków Ghetto was one of five major metropolitan Nazi ghettos created by Germany in the new General Government territory during the German occupation of Poland in World War II. It was established for the purpose of exploitation, terror, an ...
, as well as other prisoners from across
occupied Poland.
[Plaszow Concentration Camp](_blank)
hosted by Krakow-Poland.com retrieved from the Internet Archive, 16 November 2013.
See also
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Auschwitz concentration camp
Auschwitz concentration camp ( (); also or ) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It con ...
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Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp
References
* ''Atlas Miasta Krakowa'' (collective work of Institute of Geography of the
Jagiellonian University
The Jagiellonian University (Polish: ''Uniwersytet Jagielloński'', UJ) is a public research university in Kraków, Poland. Founded in 1364 by King Casimir III the Great, it is the oldest university in Poland and the 13th oldest university in ...
), Polskie Przedsiębiorstwo Wydawnictw Kartograficznych, 1988, .
External links
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Districts of Kraków
Holocaust locations in Poland
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