Site of Janowska Concentration Camp (Lviv)

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Former site of Janowska Concentration Camp operated by the German Nazi S.S. from 1941-43, housing some 5-8,000 inmates at a time, and where tens of thousands of prisonsers, mostly Jews, were brutally treated and murdered. Some sources claim that the number was 200,000 but the exact number of deaths is not known. Selection for transport to the Belzec Death Camp was conducted here.
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Coordinates:   49°51'15"N   23°59'17"E
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