Central Labour Camp Potulice

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Central Labour Camp Potulice (Polish: Centralny Obóz Pracy w Potulicach) was a a detention centre for Germans and Poles established by Polish Communist authorities after the end od World War II in Potulice, in place of the former German Nazi Potulice concentration camp. The camp was in operation since 1945 until 1950.

A total of 30,211 people were imprisoned in the camp during this period. At least 2,915 of the inmates died (other sources mention 4,500 or 5,000 victims), mostly in result of epidemic conditions prevailing in the camp. The dead were buried in a mass graves.

In 1950 the camp was transformed into a prison for Polish political and later for criminal prisoners. Today it is a prison with space for 1,446 inmates.

[edit] See also

• Potulice concentration camp
• Zgoda labour camp
• Central Labour Camp Jaworzno

[edit] External links

• (Polish) Information about documentary film "Casus Potulice"
• (Polish) Information about Potulice prison
• (Polish) "Polish Gulag" and article from Polish Wprost weekly newsmagazine, issue 1008, March 24, 2002