Janowska concentration camp

Janowska concentration camp (Polish: Janowska, Russian: Янов or "Yanov", Ukrainian: Янівський табір) was a Nazi German labor, transit and extermination camp established in September 1941 in occupied Poland on the outskirts of Lwów (Poland, today Lviv in Ukraine). The camp was labeled Janowska after the nearby street ulica Janowska in Lwów, renamed Shevchenka Street (Ukrainian: Шевченка) after the city was ceded to the Ukrainian SSR. The camp was liquidated in November 1943. The Extraordinary State Commission notorious for exaggerating the Soviet losses after World War II claimed that up to 200,000 victims perished there; according to Soviet prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials, Janowska was an extermination camp. Nevertheless, modern estimates put the total number of prisoners who passed thr

Janowska concentration camp

Janowska concentration camp (Polish: Janowska, Russian: Янов or "Yanov", Ukrainian: Янівський табір) was a Nazi German labor, transit and extermination camp established in September 1941 in occupied Poland on the outskirts of Lwów (Poland, today Lviv in Ukraine). The camp was labeled Janowska after the nearby street ulica Janowska in Lwów, renamed Shevchenka Street (Ukrainian: Шевченка) after the city was ceded to the Ukrainian SSR. The camp was liquidated in November 1943. The Extraordinary State Commission notorious for exaggerating the Soviet losses after World War II claimed that up to 200,000 victims perished there; according to Soviet prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials, Janowska was an extermination camp. Nevertheless, modern estimates put the total number of prisoners who passed thr