51°14′5.7″N 22°34′53.9″E / 51.234917°N 22.581639°E The Lublin airfield camp was a Nazi forced labor concentration camp, primarily for Jews, at the airfield in Lublin, Poland during 1942–1943, with its prehistory starting from 1939. It also employed and detained (non-Jewish) Polish women. It is also referred to as "(Lublin) airstrip camp", "Flugplatz labor camp", "Alter Flugplatz lager" (Old Airfield camp), etc.[1][2][3][4]
The airfield was located in the area of the Lublin Aircraft Factory (based on the nationalized E. Plage and T. Laśkiewicz Mechanical Works). [1]
The major industrial operation of the camp and its precursors on the factory grounds was storage, sorting and retailoring of goods looted from the Jews put into Nazi camps, as well as fur goods confiscated during the so-called "Fur Action". Part of the inmates was also involved in construction works on the site and around. In November 1943 the Jewish inmates were exterminated.[1]
- ^ a b c Jakub Chmielewski, "The Flugplatz labour camp"
- The article is based on the following comprehensive work: Wojciech Lenarczyk: "Obóz pracy na Flugplatzu w Lublinie. Historia, funkcjonowanie, więźniowie". Zeszyty Majdanka, vol. XXVI, 2014, pp. 66–69
- ^ "Airfield Camp"
- ^ "Lublin - The Old Airfield Camp (Alter Flugplatz)"
- ^ "Lublin Old Airfield", by Holocaust Historical Society