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The Trawniki concentration camp was set up by Nazi Germany in the village of Trawniki about southeast of Lublin during the occupation of Poland in World War II. Throughout its existence the camp served a dual function. It was organized on the grounds of the former Polish sugar refinery of the Central Industrial Region, and subdivided into at least three distinct zones. The Trawniki camp first opened after the outbreak of war with the USSR, intended to hold Soviet POWs, with rail lines in all major directions in the General Government territory. Between 1941 and 1944, the camp expanded into an ''SS'' training facility for collaborationists auxiliary police, mainly Ukrainian. And in 1942, it became the forced-labor camp for thousands of Jews within the ''KL Lublin'' system of subcamps as well.〔 The Trawniki inmates provided slave labour for the makeshift industrial plants of ''SS Ostindustrie'' to work in appalling conditions with little food.〔 There were 12,000 Jews imprisoned at Trawniki as of 1943 sorting through trainsets of clothing delivered from Holocaust locations. They were all massacred during Operation Harvest Festival of November 3, 1943 by the auxiliary units of Trawniki men stationing at the same location, helped by the travelling Reserve Police Battalion 101 from Orpo. The first camp commandant was Hermann Hoefle, replaced by Karl Streibel.〔 ==Concentration camp operation== The Nazi German camp at Trawniki was first established in July 1941 to hold prisoners of war captured in the Soviet occupied eastern Poland after the implementation of Operation Barbarossa.〔 The new barracks behind the barbed-wire fence were erected by the prisoners themselves. The camp became the ''SS-Arbeitslager'' meant for the Polish Jews from across General Government. Within a year, under the management of ''Gauleiter'' Odilo Globocnik, the camp included a number of forced labour workshops such as the fur processing plant (''Pelzverarbeitungswerk''), the brush factory (''Bürstenfabrik''), the bristles finishing (''Borstenzurichterei''), and the new branch of ''Das Torfwerk'' in Dorohucza.〔 The Jews who worked there from June 1942 to May 1944 as forced labour for the Nazi war effort were brought in from the Warsaw Ghetto as well as selected transit ghettos across Europe (Germany, Austria, Slovakia) under Operation Reinhard, and from September 1943 as part of the Majdanek concentration camp system of subcamps such as the Poniatowa concentration camp and several others. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Trawniki concentration camp」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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