Sprache:
Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
2004
Titel der Quelle:
Polin; Studies in Polish Jewry
Angaben zur Quelle:
17 (2004) 325-351
Schlagwort(e):
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews
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Nazi concentration camps
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World War, 1939-1945 Conscript labor
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Kurzfassung:
Relates the history of the labor camp established by the Nazis in Warsaw in July 1943, which became known as "Gesiowka". One of the Nazi goals in establishing the camp was to erase all remnants of the Warsaw ghetto. Describes the internal governance and the everyday existence of the prisoners of Gesiowka. In July 1944, when the Soviets were close to Warsaw, the Nazis evacuated ca. 4,500 of the 5,000 camp inmates. Eventually, less than 4,000 of the participants in this death march arrived at Dachau. In August 1944 a unit of the Armia Krajowa liberated the last 350 camp prisoners; many of them joined the Polish uprising in Warsaw in 1944. Only a handful fled from Warsaw after the uprising was suppressed or survived in bunkers until the liberation of the city in January 1945.
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