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Photos of Poland

Memorial monument at the Plaszow forced labor and concentration camp south of Krakow. Most of the prisoners at the World War II camp - which was operated by the occupying Nazi German Army between October 1942 and January 1945 - were Polish Jews. While the camp was not an extermination site, some 8 to 12,000 people are estimated to have been murdered at Plaszow.

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Labor force

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