Zasław concentration camp

Zaslaw
Concentration camp
Zasław location south-east of Plaszow below Belzec during World War II
Zaslaw Location of Zaslaw camp in modern Poland
Coordinates: 49°31′N 22°16′E / 49.517°N 22.267°E / 49.517; 22.267

The Zasław concentration camp or Zwangsarbeitslager Zaslaw was the World War II German concentration camp for ghettoised Jews, established in occupied Poland near the village of Zasław, (now part of Zagórz in Poland).^[1]

Zaslaw was a forced labor camp where the Polish Jews living in the city of Sanok and vicinity were deported for exploitation.

In August 1939, 5,400 Jews lived in Sanok. Similarly as in other parts of Poland, also in Sanok the Jews were persecuted, had their property confiscated, were forced to work and systematically murdered. The murders took place at the Glinki cemetery in Sanok. Many Sanok Jews died of emaciation while working for [Nazi German] Kirchhof company [locally], which was wound up in 1942, with the employees transferred to Zasław camp. A tailoring, shoemaking and fur-making workshop were set up in the camp. Many Jews also worked building or repairing roads. By the end of 1943 the camp was liquidated. A thousand Jews were murdered in Zasław, with 5,000 more taken to Bełżec camp. The murdering of the Jews in Sanok took place at locations situated on the outskirts of the town, in the woods, so the victims could immediately be buried. The annihilation of Sanok Jews took place gradually rather than through a single act.

— Małgorzata Stawiarska ^[2]

On January 15, 1943, the prisoners of Zaslaw were transported to the Belzec extermination camp, where they were killed.

A memorial to exterminated Jews was erected in Zasław by the employees of the bus company in Sanok. The Jewish memorial sits almost directly opposite the town cemetery in Zasław.

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Coordinates: 49°31′11″N 22°16′38″E / 49.519825°N 22.277184°E / 49.519825; 22.277184