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City – Camp – City. KL Plaszow Memorial Site

2022-06-04, 11:00 a.m.
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The phrase "town – camp – town", when referring to the KL Plaszow Memorial Site, can be understood in many different ways. The first natural association is the perception of Plaszow Concentration Camp itself as a spatial structure of a camp-city. Around mid-1944, the camp housed 20,000 prisoners at a time, and there were more than 200 buildings of various types on an area of 31 square miles. Like the city, the camp was divided into "districts" – the area for prisoners with living quarters, kitchens, food storage, a hospital, and a roll-call square; the industrial area with workshops and production barracks; and the staff area with officers' houses, commandant's quarters, and barracks. 

 

However, there was also a relationship between the city and the camp, that is Krakow and KL Plaszow. Unlike most World War II concentration camps, the Plaszow camp was established within the boundaries of a large urban centre. They were connected through infrastructure, including roads, water supply and electrical grid. The specificity of the relationship between KL Plaszow and Krakow was also primarily determined by the very local nature of the former. The prisoners of the camp were mostly from Krakow and people from the present-day Małopolska Voivodeship. This made it possible to pass on information and help or maintain family and social relations across the barbed wire.

 

During the walk, participants had the opportunity to learn about the contemporary topography of the memorial site with reference to the history of KL Plaszow and wartime Krakow, and trace the relationship between the city and the (former) camp.

 

Guide: Kamil Karski – archaeologist, from 2017 worked at the Museum of Krakow, and since 2021 has been the Chief Registrar of the KL Plaszow Museum. His work includes archaeological research on 20th-century issues, including armed conflict and the crime of genocide, and education drawing on archaeology, history, and sociology.

 

Duration: approximately 180 minutes.

Attendance was free.

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