plaszow

Pla-zaow

• Plaszow was built in December of 1942.
• Plaszow was located in Krakow, Poland. 
• Plaszow started as a camp for polish prisoners in 1940.
• Plaszow was a slave labor Camp.
• Prisoners were force to do factory work which was one of the good jobs. 

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• More than 80,000 people were killed.
• They were moved to Auschwitz-Birkenau and put in gas chambers.
• Hungarians, Czechoslovakians, Frenchman, Belgians, and Romanians   
• were all killed. 
• Prisoners were mainly sent to gas chambers. 

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• Body's were buried in mass graves.
• The bodies were later dug up and burned. 

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• Amon Goeth was the leader of Plaszow.  
• Amon would sit from his porch and shoot Jews for fun.
• After liberation the Nazis burned down most of the camp.
• What remains of the camps buildings are now museums.  
• Many of the people that survived Plaszow died of malnutrition.