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Amon Leopold Göth (German: ⓘ; alternative spelling Goeth; 11 December 1908 – 13 September 1946) was an Austrian SS functionary and war criminal.He served as the commandant of the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp in Płaszów in German-occupied Poland for most of the camp's existence during World War II.
Amon Göth's villa remains there. Another small monument, located near the opposite end of the site, stands in memory of the first execution of (non-Jewish) Polish prisoners in 1939. A version of the camp is featured in the movie Schindler's List (1993), about the life of Oskar Schindler.
After the war, Sternlicht testified against Amon Göth at his trial in Kraków, where he was sentenced to death and executed. She met Joseph Jonas two days after liberation, married him and emigrated with her family to the United States in 1946. [4] Płaszów Memorial, where Helen Jonas-Rosenzweig and Monika Hertwig met for the first time.
Amon Göth, Austrian Nazi commandant of the Nazi concentration camp in Płaszów and war criminal (13 September 1946) Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general and war criminal (23 February 1946) William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw), Nazi propagandist (3 January 1946) Irma Grese, German Nazi concentration camp guard and war criminal (13 December 1945)
Inheritance is a 2006 American documentary film about Monika Hertwig , also known as Monika Christiane Knauss, [1] the daughter of Ruth Irene Kalder and Amon Göth, commandant of the Płaszów concentration camp. Monika Hertwig was 10 months old when her father was hanged in 1946 for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.
The prison was the site of the last administration of the death penalty in Poland, performed by hanging on 21 April 1988. [11]Despite being officially recognized as both a historical monument and a place of martyrdom, the facility continues to be operated to this day as a combination of remand prison and ordinary correctional facility by the Polish Prison Administration (the Służba ...
Hujowa Górka, 2008. Hujowa Górka ([xuˈjɔ.va ˈɡurka]; sometimes ”Hujarowa Górka” or Chujowa Górka, rarely ”Kozia Górka” [1]) is a place near the site of Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp, where in April 1944 the Nazis exhumed and incinerated the bodies of around ten thousand previously killed Jews, to hide the evidence of the crime before retreating from the area.
Died awaiting execution Johann Schwarzhuber: August 29, 1904: May 3, 1947: 42 years, 247 days Commandant of men's camp at Auschwitz, and selection of prisoners to be gassed at Auschwitz. Commandant of Birkenau. Executed by hanging Martin Weiss: February 21, 1903: September 30, 1984 81 years, 222 days Commander of the Vilna Ghetto