Newsgroups: alt.revisionism Subject: Holocaust Almanac - Trawniki (Overview) Summary: A brief discussion of Trawniki, the SS training camp where Demjanjuk and many others were trained as death camp guards Reply-To: kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca Followup-To: Organization: The Old Frog's Almanac, Vancouver Island, CANADA Keywords: Belzec,Lublin,Globocnik,Trawniki Archive/File: holocaust/poland/reinhard/trawniki trawniki.001 Last-modified: 1993/10/26 Trawniki was a labor camp which was established in the Fall of 1941, in Trawniki, which is southeast of Lublin. It was built around an abandoned sugar factory, and housed both Soviet prisoners and Polish Jews. Trawniki belonged to Globocnik's network of camps (request reinhard reinhard.faq) in Eastern Poland. In the Spring of 1942, Jews from Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia were brought to Trawniki, where many either died of starvation and disease, or were shot in the nearby forest, or were deported to Belzec for extermination there. In October, 1943, after the uprising at Sobibor, Heinrich Himmler ordered all the Aktion Reinhard camps destroyed. On November 5 of that year, ten thousand Jews were taken from Trawniki and shot, then their bodies were buried in previously-prepared pits. In the Spring of 1944, the remaining prisoners were transferred to the camp at Starachowice, in the Radom district, and Trawniki was destroyed. About twenty thousand passed through the Trawniki camp during its existence. (Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Vol. IV, pp. 1480-1481)
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