Jaworzno Central Labor Camp
The Central Labor Camp Jaworzno (Polish: Centralny Obóz Pracy w Jaworznie, COP Jaworzno ) was a prison camp for alleged " enemies of the people " ( wrogowie narodu ) of the People's Republic of Poland operated from 1945 to 1949 on the site of the former Neu-Dachs SS labor camp in Jaworzno .
In February 1945 the camp was first taken over by the NKVD , and then taken over by the Polish Ministry of Public Security and renamed the Central Labor Camp . The inscription above the gate " Work makes you free " was replaced by "Praca uszlachetnia człowieka" ("Work ennobles people"). The guards were soldiers of the Internal Security Corps (Korpus Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego).
The Soviet NKVD officer Ivan Mordasov was used as a commander by the NKVD . The first commandant under the direction of the Polish Ministry of Public Security was Lieutenant Włodzimierz Staniszewski until October 1945 , then Cpt. Stanislaw Kwiatkowski . In April 1948 Teofil Hazelmajer took over the management of the camp and from February 1949, after the so-called "Ukrainian Period", Captain Salomon Morel , who was known for his atrocities in the Zgoda labor camp in Świętochłowice .
According to the incomplete official figures, 1,535 people died between 1945 and 1947, 972 of them in a typhus epidemic . There were sub-camps in Chrusty and Libiąż .
literature
- Bohdan Kordan: Making Borders Stick: Population Transfer and Resettlement in the Trans-Curzon Territories, 1944-1949 " International Migration Review, Vol. 31, No. 3. (Autumn, 1997), pp. 704-720.
- Kazimierz Miroszewski: Ukraińcy i Łemkowie w Centralnym Obozie Pracy Jaworzno, In: Pamiętny rok 1947, Rzeszów 2001.
- Gerold Schneider: The past that does not want to pass. Wrong ways in German-Polish neighborhood. St. Benno, 1998 - 4th A. 323 pp. ISBN 3-7462-1275-8 .
Web links
- Było takie miejsce ... ( Memento of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (in Polish; The Pontifical Academy of Theology)
- Roman Drozd, "Явожно– трагічний символ акції" Вісла "" ( Memento from July 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (in Ukrainian "Jaworzno - the tragic symbol of Wisła Action" ) In: Наше слово weekly magazine, No. 18, 2004
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.beskid-niski.pl/index.php?pos=/lemkowie/historia/jaworzno
- ↑ http://haltenraum.com/article/jaworzno-kz
- ↑ http://www.semanchuk.com/gen/places/jaworzno/PrisonCamp1947-1949/page48.html
Coordinates: 50 ° 12 ′ 48.3 " N , 19 ° 14 ′ 21.7" E