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Janowska concentration camp

Coordinates: 49°51′15″N 23°59′24″E / 49.85417°N 23.99000°E / 49.85417; 23.99000
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Janowska
Concentration camp
Survivors of the camp's Sonderkommando 1005 unit stand next to a bone crushing machine (taken following the liberation of the camp in 1944)
Ukraine
Ukraine
Location of Janowska camp in modern Ukraine
Janowska
Janowska
Location of KL Janowska in World War II,
south of the Belzec death camp
Coordinates49°51′15″N 23°59′24″E / 49.85417°N 23.99000°E / 49.85417; 23.99000
LocationLemberg, District of Galicia, General Government (formerly Lwów, Second Polish Republic; today Lviv, Ukraine)
Operated bySS
OperationalSeptember 1941 – November 1943
InmatesJews
Number of inmates100,000
Killed35,000–40,000
Liberated byThe Red Army
Websiteencyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/janowska

The Janowska concentration camp was a German Nazi concentration camp. It was created in September of 1941 on the outskirts of Lwów. The number of people killed at the camp is around 35,000 to 40,000. The camp was named after the near street of Janowska in Lwów of the Second Polish Republic. The Germans the camp in November of 1943, with the truth of mass murders being destroyed in the Nazi program of Sonderaktion 1005.

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