Organization
In the atlas Atlas zur deutschen Zeitgeschichte 1918-1968 published in 1986 in Deutschland KL, Warschau is signed as Hauptlager ("main camp") and as such it has the same status as KL Dachau. The guards included, besides Germans and the Volksdeutsche, also ethnic Ukrainians and Latvians from Trawniki concentration camp.
The camp was composed of six small parts located in different areas of Warsaw, all of which were connected by railway and were under unified organization and one command. In chronological order of opening, those were:
- Konzentrationslager (concentration camp) at Koło area (formerly a Kreigsgefangenenlager POW camp for the Polish Army soldiers captured in 1939);) this part remains controversial since local residents claim Maria Trzcinska mistook buildings of "drewniane Kolo" housing project for a camp.
- Vernichtungslager (extermination camp) near the Warszawa Zachodnia train station (this part remains very controversial);
- Gęsia Street (now: Anielewicza Street) concentration camp (formerly Arbeitserziehungslager, or "reeducational labour camp") in the former ghetto known as Gęsiówka;
- a camp for foreign Jews located on Nowolipie Street;
- Bonifraterska Street camp near Muranowski Square in the former ghetto;
- the former Gestapo prison on Pawia Street known as Pawiak.
The overall area of the camp was 1.2 km², with 119 barracks purposely built to hold approximately 40,000 prisoners, and its infrastructure included several crematoriums.
500 killed
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