Day Two - Plazow & Schlinder

All in all - there were over 9,000 concentration camps (Auschwitz was a collection of nearly 40) in Poland. These were places when people were retained as inexpensive labor for the factories and mines. One of the most famous concentration camps made famous by the movie Schlinder's list was Plazow. The camp is gone but a memorial remains in its place. As the war came to an end, the Nazi Germans destroyed the camp to prevent discovery.

Nearby is also the small Jewish Ghetto created outside of the city center and home to tens of thousands of Jews. It is home to the one of the most famous sorting areas where Jews were sent to labor or death. We happened to arrive at the same time as a group of Israel students and their guards. These kids have to be protected to prevent harm even in 2013.

Original wall surrounding the Jewish Ghetto - intentionally shape like tombstones to represent death

Memorial in Jewish Ghetto sorting area 

Schlinder's Factory entrance

Plazow concentration camp memorial