Szebnie is a village in the administrative district of

Gmina Jasło __NOTOC__ Gmina Jasło is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Jasło County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. Its seat is the town of Jasło, although the town is not part of the territory of the gmina. The gmina covers ...

, within

Jasło County __NOTOC__ Jasło County ( pl, powiat jasielski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Subcarpathian Voivodeship, south-eastern Poland, on the Slovak border. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of ...

Subcarpathian Voivodeship Subcarpathian Voivodeship or Subcarpathia Province (in pl, Województwo podkarpackie ) is a voivodeship, or province, in the southeastern corner of Poland. Its administrative capital and largest city is Rzeszów. Along with the Marshall, it is ...

, in south-eastern Poland. It lies approximately east of

Jasło Jasło is a county town in south-eastern Poland with 36,641 inhabitants, as of 31 December 2012. It is situated in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship (since 1999), and it was previously part of Krosno Voivodeship (1975–1998). It is located in Lesser ...

and south-west of the regional capital

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World War II

The town was the location of the

Szebnie concentration camp , image = ObozSzebnie43.svg , image size = 270px , type = Forced-labor camp , caption = ''Top:'' plan of the camp, September 1943 Location of KL Szebnie in World War II,east of Plaszow concentration camp , map relief ...

during German

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in World War II. The facility was constructed in 1940 originally as horse stables for the

Wehrmacht The ''Wehrmacht'' (, ) were the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945. It consisted of the ''Heer'' (army), the ''Kriegsmarine'' (navy) and the ''Luftwaffe'' (air force). The designation "''Wehrmacht''" replaced the previou ...

next to a manorial estate. Thousands of prisoners perished there over the course of the camp's operation, including Russian prisoners of war,

Polish Jews The history of the Jews in Poland dates back at least 1,000 years. For centuries, Poland was home to the largest and most significant Ashkenazi Jewish community in the world. Poland was a principal center of Jewish culture, because of the lon ...

and non-Jewish Poles as well as Ukrainians and

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. The charred remains of the camp were entered by the Soviets on 8 September 1944. There was a SS training facility ''

SS-Truppenübungsplatz Heidelager ''SS-Truppenübungsplatz Heidelager'' was a World War II SS military complex and Nazi concentration camp in Pustków and Pustków Osiedle, Occupied Poland. The Nazi facility was built to train collaborationist military units, including the ...

'' nearby at Pustków, for the Ukrainian 14th Waffen SS Division, as well as other collaborationists military formations. Their field training included killing operations at Szebnie.

References

Szebnie Holocaust locations in Poland {{Jasło-geo-stub

World War II

See also

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