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| latd = 51.1054 | latNS = N | longd= 22.0407 | longEW= E | coordinates type = type:landmark | coordinates display = inline,title_region:PL | other names = ''Stalag 359 Poniatowa'' | known for = | location = Poniatowa, Poland | built by = | operated by = | original use = | construction = | in operation = - | gas chambers = | prisoner type= | inmates = | killed = | liberated by = | notable inmates = Israel Shahak | notable books = }} Poniatowa concentration camp in the town of Poniatowa in occupied Poland, west of Lublin, was established by the ''SS'' in the latter half of 1941 initially, to hold Soviet prisoners of war following Operation Barbarossa. By , about 20,000 Soviet POWs had perished there from hunger, disease and executions. It was known at that time as the ''Stalag 359 Poniatowa''. Afterwards, the ''Stammlager'' was redesigned an expanded as a concentration camp to provide slave labour supporting the German war effort, with workshops run by the ''SS Ostindustrie'' (Osti) on the grounds of the prewar Polish telecommunications equipment factory founded in the late 1930s.〔Michał Kaźmierczak, (Poniatowa unofficial site ) with links to History and Gallery of photographs. Retrieved April 19, 2013. Location of Poniatowa factory: 〕 Poniatowa became part of the Majdanek concentration camp system of subcamps in the early autumn of 1943. The wholesale massacre of its mostly Jewish workforce took place during the ''Aktion Erntefest'', thus concluding the Operation Reinhard in General Government. ==Camp operation== In October 1942 Amon Göth – soon to become the commandant of Kraków-Płaszów – visited Poniatowa with a blueprint for redevelopment. The construction of a brand new forced labor camp was assigned to Erwin Lambert. The camp was meant to supply workers for the Walter Többens factory moving in from the Warsaw Ghetto, where at least 254,000 Jews were sent to Treblinka extermination camp in two months of summer 1942. ''Obersturmführer'' Gottlieb Hering was appointed the camp commandant. He was promoted to the rank of ''SS-Hauptsturmführer by Himmler in March 1943.〔〔 The first transport of Jews arrived at Poniatowa in October 1942 from Opole where the ghetto liquidation to Sobibor extermination camp was under way. The new barracks were built. By January 1943 there were 1,500 Jews in the camp. In April 1943, during the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto, about 15,000 more Polish Jews were delivered. For the next six months, they all produced fresh garments for the Wehrmacht. Due to the nature of the work performed, the prisoners were not maltreated like in most other camps. They were allowed to keep children through daycare, wear their own clothes, and retain their personal effects, because the new uniforms made by them, were great morale boosters at the Front. The Jewish tailors and seamstresses of Warsaw worked practically free of charge for the German war profiteer Walter Caspar Többens (Toebbens) who was making a fortune. He was later described as the anti-Schindler. The Jews of Poland were augmented by around 3,000 Slovakian and Austrian Jews (the camp elite) housed separately from the rest.〔Alexander Donat, (''The Holocaust kingdom: a memoir'' ) (London, 1965), pp.216-217. Retrieved April 19, 2013〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Poniatowa concentration camp」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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