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File:Бутовский полигон 8199.jpg More detailed map, containing not only camps ("лагеря",) but prison settlements ("лагпункты") as well. Photographed at the Butovo Firing Range Memorial
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A list of Gulag penal labor camps in the USSR was created in Poland from the personal accounts of labor camp detainees of Polish citizenship. It was compiled by the government of Poland for the purpose of regulation and future financial compensation for World War II victims, and published in a decree of the Council of Ministers of Poland .
Graves of the Lithuanian political prisoners in Vorkutlag, 20th century Map of the Vorkuta labor camp (in German). The numbers of the shafts in the circles, Map drawn between 1951 and 1956, image taken from Geography Volume XI, 1957, p. 208. Kurt Behrens: Germans in penal camps and prisons in the Soviet Union, Volume V/1/2/3.
In the early days of Gulag, the locations for the camps were chosen primarily for the isolated conditions involved. Remote monasteries in particular were frequently reused as sites for new camps. The site on the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea is one of the earliest and also most noteworthy, taking root soon after the Revolution in 1918. [16]
Today there are six political prison camps in North Korea, with the size determined from satellite images [29] and the number of prisoners estimated by former prisoners and NGOs. [ 30 ] [ 31 ] Most of the camps are documented in testimonies of former prisoners and, for all of them, coordinates and satellite images are available.
Pukch'ang concentration camp (Hangeul: 북창 제18호 관리소, also spelled Bukchang) is a labor camp in North Korea for political prisoners. It is sometimes called Tŭkchang concentration camp (Hangeul: 득장 제18호 관리소, also Deukjang or Dukjang).
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