Obozy pracy dla Żydów w ramach planu „Otto”

Jakub Chmielewski

doi:10.56583/sz.561

Published : 2013-12-31

Vol. 3 No. 3 (2013)

Labour Camps for Jews in the Plan Otto

Jakub Chmielewski

DOI: https://doi.org/10.56583/sz.561

Abstract

In the spring of 1940, the Germans started to establish network of labour camps in the administrative district Zamość and Biłgoraj. At that time, they operated within the so-called Plan Otto: the goal of the Plan was building an antitank trench at the demarcation line with the Soviet Union. The camps were set up in the villages of Bełżec, Cieszanów, Dzików, Lipsko and Płazów. Bełżec became the main camp in the mid-August of 1941. There was loca-ted the Central Camps’ Council, which was an aid institution for Jewish workers. Also the Jewish Council in Lublin and few Jewish Council from other places tried to take care of Jewish workers there. The life conditions in the camps, heavy physical work, sadism of German crew and insufficient food supply resulted in epidemics of typhus and dysentery. The result of that was, among others, serious number of deaths. The camps within the Otto Plan operated until autumn 1940.

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demarcation line, Otto plan, labor camp, Bełżec, Cieszanów, Dzików, Lipsko, Płazów, Central Camp Council, Jewish workers, Zamość poviat, Biłgoraj poviat

Labour Camps for Jews in the Plan Otto

Jakub Chmielewski

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