Introduction Did you know that the concentration camp Plaszow over 20,000 people in it at once? I have been researching the concentration camp Plaszow for a few weeks, so in these next few paragraphs I will tell you all about what I have learned about the camp.
The rise of Plaszow The Plaszow camp was set up in the fall of 1942 as a forced labor camp for Jews. This camp was established because the officers needed a place to put the Jews in the Kraków ghetto.
What type of camp is it? There are generally two types of concentration camps extermination and work camps. An extermination camp is a camp where people are either shot, gassed, burned, etc. A work camp is where the prisoners work to survive. So which one…show more content… After liberation Goeth was turned over to the polish officials and sentenced to death by hanging.
What was the “set up” of the camp? Plaszow was located in southern Poland near the city of Kraków. The camp had many sections including two cemeteries, a barracks for German personnel, warehouses, factories, a men's and women's camp, and a “labor education camp.” It was also surrounded by electrified bared-wire fences. The landscape was very uneven with hills that were full of stones and large sections were marshy. The construction was very difficult because of the terrain. The total area of the camp was twenty-five acres.
What did Oskar Schindler do for Plaszow? Oskar Schindler was considered a “hero of the holocaust” in some peoples eyes. In 1939, he advantage of the German occupation program. He first bought a Jewish owned enamelware manufacturer. He used to factory to save Jewish people from the curtly of Plaszow. He had 1,700 workers and 1,000 of them were Jews. When Plaszow was being liquidated he allowed the Jews to stay over night; the SS never came for them. After Plaszow be was re-designated as a concentration camp, Schindler persuaded the SS to make Emapia (Schindler’s camp) a sub-camp of Plaszow. In addition to his one thousand Jewish registered factory workers, he permitted four hundred and fifty more to live at Emalia from surrounding…show more content… The life inmates was described as “miserable” and “brutal.” Plaszow like many other concentration camps had a very low food supply. Because of the low supply of food many prisoners died from starvation. Other ways prisoners died were being worked to death, or being shot for no reason at all. Plaszow was a work and extermination camp so if you could not work you would be sent to the death camp portion. The average life expectancy was four weeks
