Janowska concentration camp
Janowska concentration camp (Polish: Janowska, Russian: Янов or "Yanov", Ukrainian: Янівський табір) was a German Nazi concentration camp combining elements of labor, transit, and extermination camps. It was established in September 1941 on the outskirts of Lwów in what had become, after the German invasion, the General Government (today: Lviv, Ukraine). The camp was named after the nearby street Janowska in Lwów of the interwar Second Polish Republic.
| 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) | |
Location of Janowska camp in modern Ukraine
Janowska
south of the Belzec death camp | |
| Coordinates | 49°51′15″N 23°59′24″E |
| Location | Lemberg, District of Galicia, General Government (formerly Lwów, Second Polish Republic; today Lviv, Ukraine) |
| Operated by | SS |
| Operational | September 1941 – November 1943 |
| Inmates | Jews |
| Number of inmates | 100,000 |
| Killed | 35,000–40,000 |
| Liberated by | The Red Army |
| Website | encyclopedia |
The Germans liquidated the camp in November 1943, with the evidence of mass murder being largely destroyed in the Nazi program of Sonderaktion 1005. Estimates put the total number of prisoners who passed through the Janowska camp at between 100,000 and 120,000, mostly Polish and Soviet Jews. The number of victims murdered at the camp is estimated at 35,000–40,000.