Polish prisoners in Nazi concentration camps

Polish political prisoners of the first mass transport to Auschwitz concentration camp at the railway station in Tarnów, 14 June 1940

During World War II, hundreds of thousands of non-Jewish Polish citizens were imprisoned in Nazi German concentration camps for various reasons, including the Polish resistance movement in World War II.[1]

In Auschwitz alone, there were between 130,000 and 150,000 Polish prisoners, about half of whom perished during their incarceration.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Polish Victims". encyclopedia.ushmm.org. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  2. ^ "Poles in Auschwitz / Categories of prisoners / History / Auschwitz-Birkenau". auschwitz.org. Retrieved 24 June 2020.

Further reading

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.