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View of the villa of commandant Amon Goeth in the Plaszow concentration camp.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 50695
View of the villa of commandant Amon Goeth in the Plaszow concentration camp.

View of the villa of commandant Amon Goeth in the Plaszow concentration camp.

Photographer
Raimund Titsch
Date
1943 - 1944
Locale
Plaszow, [Krakow] Poland
Photo Designation
MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Plaszow -- Wartime -- Views
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Leopold Page Photographic Collection

About This Photograph

Biography
Amon Leopold Goeth (1908-1946), a native of Vienna, joined the Nazi party in 1932 and the SS in 1940. During the war he was sent first to SS headquarters in Lublin and subsequently to Krakow, where he was put in charge of the liquidation of the ghettos and labor camps of Szebnie, Bochnia, Tarnow and Krakow. From February 1943 until September 1944 Goeth held the position of commandant of the Plaszow concentration camp near Krakow. After the war he was extradited to Poland, where he was tried before the Polish Supreme Court. He was sentenced to death and executed in Krakow in 1946.

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Rights and Restrictions

Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Leopold Page Photographic Collection
Instytut Pamieci Narodowej
Copyright: Agency Agreement
Source Record ID: 63000
 
Record last modified: 2006-11-15 00:00:00
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