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The Płaszów camp, originally intended as a forced labor camp, was constructed in a southern suburb of Kraków on the grounds of two former Jewish cemeteries in the summer of 1942, during the Nazi German occupation of Poland. The deportations of the Jews from the Kraków Ghetto to Belzec began on October 28, 1942. In 1943, the camp was expanded and turned into one of many Nazi concentration camps. This monument was erected in 1964. A version of the camp is featured in Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List.
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