Zasław concentration camp (in german: Zwangsarbeitslager Zaslaw) was a World War II
Nazi German concentration camp, established for
ghettoised Jews in
occupied Poland near the village of Zasław (now part of
Zagórz in
Poland), south-east of the industrial city of
Sanok which belonged to the
Lwów Voivodeship of the
Second Polish Republic
The Second Polish Republic, at the time officially known as the Republic of Poland, was a country in Central Europe, Central and Eastern Europe that existed between 1918 and 1939. The state was established on 6 November 1918, before the end of ...
before
the invasion. Sanok had one of the largest Jewish population in the region.
Operation
Zaslaw was a
forced labor camp where
Polish Jews living in the city of
Sanok and its vicinity were deported for confinement and exploitation before the onset of the
Holocaust in occupied Poland
The Holocaust in Poland was part of the European-wide Holocaust organized by Nazi Germany and took place in German-occupied Poland. During the genocide, three million Polish Jews were murdered, half of all Jews murdered during the Holocaust.
...
. Between 1940 and 1943 some 15,000 prisoners passed through the camp.
On January 15, 1943, the prisoners of Zaslaw were transported to the
Belzec extermination camp, where they were killed in
gas chambers.
Commemoration
A memorial to murdered Jews was erected in Zasław by the employees of the bus company in Sanok. The memorial to victims of Nazism sits almost directly opposite the town cemetery in Zasław.
[Staff writer]
Zasław
''Zabytki i Miejsca Pamieci Narodowej.'' Publisher: Gmina Zagórz.
Notes and references
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Nazi concentration camps in Poland