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As well as imprisoning people in the ghetto, the Nazis also relocated many Jews to the concentration camp at Plaszow , built near an old Austrian hill fort a couple of kilometres south of Kazimierz. Levelled after the war, the camp's desolate hilltop site is now enclosed by fields and concrete residential blocks. Although local guidebooks often fail to mention the site, it is marked on the large Krakow: plan miasta city map by two "Pomnik Martyrologii" symbols, just above the junction of ul. Kamienskiego and ul. Wielicka. To get here, take a local train (Tarnow direction) to Plaszow station or walk from Podgorze (20min), down to ul. Wielicka and cross over the road. The mortuary that served the Jewish cemetery before the war used to stand on the corner of ul. Jerozolimska. Scramble about in the undergrowth just beyond this and you'll find the remains of the camp gate, blown up by the retreating Nazis in January 1945, and the remains of quarries dug by camp inmates. The villa occupied by camp commander Amon Goeth still stands on ul. Jerozolimska, now occupied by a local resident. From here it's a ten-minute walk along paths through the overgrown surroundings to the brow of the hill and the large monument to the victims of the camp erected in the 1960s, clearly visible from the road below. Close to it stands a smaller memorial plaque encased in a stone obelisk put up by the city's Jewish community. Unlike its officially sanctioned neighbour, the plaque dedication recalls the fact that the majority of those who were incarcerated and died in Plaszow were Jewish. Like many Nazi concentration camps, the site has an eerie, wilderness atmosphere, all the more so for the lack of buildings. Scratch beneath the surface of the grass-covered mounds and you'll find shards of pottery, scraps of metal and cutlery - tell-tale evidence of its wartime use
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