Janowska concentration camp
Nazi Germany labor and transit camp in Lviv in occupied Poland (1941-1944)
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The Janowska concentration camp was a German Nazi concentration camp. It was created in September of 1941 on the outskirts of Lwów. The number of people killed at the camp is around 35,000 to 40,000. The camp was named after the near street of Janowska in Lwów of the Second Polish Republic. The Germans the camp in November of 1943, with the truth of mass murders being destroyed in the Nazi program of Sonderaktion 1005.
| Janowska | |
|---|---|
| Concentration camp | |
 Survivors of the camp's Sonderkommando 1005 unit stand next to a bone crushing machine (taken following the liberation of the camp in 1944) | |
  Location of Janowska camp in modern Ukraine
  Janowska
south of the Belzec death camp | |
| Coordinates | 49°51′15″N 23°59′24″E / 49.85417°N 23.99000°E |
| Location | Lemberg, District of Galicia, General Government (formerly Lwów, Second Polish Republic; today Lviv, Ukraine) |
| Operated by | SS |
| Operational | September 1941 – November 1943 |
| Inmates | Jews |
| Number of inmates | 100,000 |
| Killed | 35,000–40,000 |
| Liberated by | The Red Army |
| Website | encyclopedia |
