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Dulag 121 Pruszkow

Durchgangslager 121 Pruszków

Dulag 121 Pruszkow - German Nazi transit camp, where civilians gathered in Warsaw and surrounding villages, removed from their homes during and after the Warsaw Uprising. The camp was created 6 August 1944 in the former Rolling Stock Repair Plant (Zakłady Naprawcze Taboru Kolejowego) in Pruszkow. It operated until mid-December, 1944, and up to January 16, 1945. By Dulag 121 over this period from 390 thousand to 550 thousand people, of whom tens of thousands were after a short stay in the camp exported to forced labor in the Reich or exiled to concentration camps. The area of Pruszkow camp was 48 hectares. For its development it consisted of nine large production halls and several smaller buildings. The camp was surrounded by a concrete wall with four gates. The museum was established on the site of the former camp Dulag 121 in Pruszkow, they opened it to the public in 2010. Museum Dulag 121 is a modern multimedia exhibition, consisting of five parts devoted to the Warsaw Uprising in Warsaw exodus, the functioning of Dulag 121, support for the camp and the last period of his activity. Among the exposed objects are the original band camp kitchen worker, cup and spoon, belonging to prisoners, lead soldiers, drawn from Warsaw by a child and a handwritten letter of Iwaszkiewicz concerning the fate of the prisoners in the camp Pruszkow people of culture. Two multimedia presentations show photographs, documents, reports, clippings, maps and sketches. Next to them, a replica of the fragment placed cattle car - one of Warsaw which were taken from the camp to continue wandering.

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