8 Kolobrzeska, Bydgoszcz, Poland
Kraków-Płaszów was a concentration camp run by Nazis during World War II, originally intended as a forced labour camp for the people of Kraków’s Ghetto. The camp could hold up to 20 thousand prisoners at the time, many of which were executed or died due to exhaustive forced labour and overall poor conditions. Although by 1943 there were plans to build gas and cremation chambers they were never executed as in 1944 the Nazi Germans decided to shut down this operation and transfer the prisoners to still operating caps of Auschwitz-Birkenau and Stutthof.
Today there are very little remains of the former camp in Płaszów, except for a Monument to the Victims of Fascism erected in 1964. The monument presents five figures standing in a row, with their heads bent under the weight of a stone block and a breech across their chests.
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