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The Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp was divided into multiple sections. [2] There was a separate area for camp personnel, work facilities, male prisoners, female prisoners, and a further subdivision between Jews and non-Jews. Although separated, men and women still managed to have contact with one another.
Marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation, King Charles’s visit carried profound significance as he is the first British monarch to visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
Charles visited the heart of Krakow’s Jewish community as commemorations began marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.
He spoke at a Jewish community centre in Krakow ahead of becoming the first British head of state to visit Auschwitz, where he attended a commemoration event to mark the 80 years since its liberation.
A part of the exhibition is dedicated to Auschwitz concentration camp. In 2008, the museum collaborated with the Auschwitz Jewish Center to create the exhibition Polish Heroes, which focuses on the Polish Righteous Among the Nations. Today, the exhibition can be seen in six museums across Poland, England and the United States.
Left to right (top to bottom): Concentration camp in Płaszów near Kraków, built by Nazi Germany in 1942 • Inmates of Birkenau returning to barracks, 1944 • Slave labour for the Generalplan Ost, making Lebensraum latifundia • Majdanek concentration camp (June 24, 1944) • Death gate at Stutthof concentration camp • Map of Nazi extermination camps in occupied Poland, marked with ...