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Plaszow: A Concentration Camp in the City of Krakow [Cracow]

There is a largely, almost entirely, forgotten concentration camp (konzentrationslager in German) in the city of Krakow by the name of Plaszow. Only one building out of the 200 buildings that comprised the camp still stands today: it is known as the Grey House and held the office of the camp commandant, though its basement was a torture chamber. The site has now been turned into an open-air museum (Muzeum KL Plaszow) with plans for an extensive upgrade. Where the camp once stood is now a very bucolic landscape with beautiful meadows and lush greenery. What is all the more remarkable is that the camp, which is across the river in the southern part of Krakow, is really part of the city--it may perhaps have been more on the outskirts of the city, but even then it would have been too close to such a large city (with a population of around 250,000 in 1939, one quarter of which was Jewish) for people not to have known about it. This fact is alone unsettling; what is also remarkable is that no one talks about it, and not one person in Poland, not even the scholars and historians in Poland with whom I've been in touch, mentioned it to me. Still, the apparently is doing something with the site. At one end of the site (which I would reckon is now around 100 acres, though it may have been much larger in the early 1940s) stands a monument to those murdered by the fascists. There was a strong wind blowing when I made the short video, and unfortunately the microphone malfunctioned, and there are some instances where I may be hard to follow. Nevertheless, here is something on Plaszow, one of the hundreds of camps in the Nazi camp universe.