| LOCATION |
JEROZOLIMSKA KRAKOW – PLAZOW CONCENTRATION CAMP |
| KNOWN FOR |
IN GERMAN-OCCUPIED POLAND, USED CHIEFLY AS A FORCED-LABOUR CENTRE. |
| OPERATED BY |
NAZI GERMANY |
| OPERATIONAL |
28 OCTOBER 1942 – JANUARY 1945 |
| INMATES |
MOSTLY POLISH JEWS |
| NUMBER OF INMATES |
AT ITS PEAK, IT HELD SOME 20,000 OR MORE INMATES, INCLUDING HUNDREDS OF ROMA (GYPSIES) AND POLISH PRISONERS FROM THE WARSAW UPRISING (AUGUST-OCTOBER 1944). |
| KILLED |
IT IS ESTIMATED THAT NEARLY 30,000 PEOPLE WERE IMPRISONED THERE AND AROUND 5 000 WERE KILLED |
| LIBERATED BY |
RED ARMY, 20 JANUARY 1945 |
