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Polish political prisoners of the first mass transport to Auschwitz concentration camp at the railway station in Tarnów, 14 June 1940
During World War II, hundreds of thousands of non-Jewish Polish citizens were imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps for various reasons, including Polish resistance movement in World War II.[1]
In Auschwitz alone, there were between 130,000 and 150,000 Polish prisoners, about half of them who perished during their incarceration.[2]
References
- ↑ "Polish Victims". encyclopedia.ushmm.org. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
- ↑ "Poles in Auschwitz / Categories of prisoners / History / Auschwitz-Birkenau". auschwitz.org. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
Further reading
- Wachsmann, Nikolaus (2015). KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-374-11825-9.
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