German Administrative Order to enforce punitive labor

(HOLOCAUST).

2nd October

Plaszow Concentration Camp

1943

Typed on stationery of Plaszow Concentration Camp (corrected to "Transit Camp") and signed by the Hauptscharfuhrer

Plaszów was a Nazi slave-labor camp located in the suburbs south of Cracow, Poland. Commanding the camp was Amon Göth, an SS commandant from Vienna who was known for being uncommonly sadistic in his treatment of prisoners. Göth personally oversaw the liquidation of the Cracow Ghetto, forcing those Jews deemed capable of work into Plaszów where they supplied manpower to several armament factories and a stone quarry. The death rate in the camp was very high due to typhus and starvation and it was infamous for both individual and mass shootings that were carried out there. Plaszów is featured in the Steven Spielberg motion-picture "Schindler's List" about the life of Oskar Schindler. The present document records the punishment of an elderly Jew Isreal (sic) Kramer, born 1874 in Tarnow, Poland, as he was using a towel to wrap his bare feet.