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Hujowa Górka

Hujowa Górka is a place near the site of Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp, where in April 1944 the Nazis exhumed and incinerated the… Read more…

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Taxi · 8 min
Hujowa Górka
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Walk · 6 min
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Walk · 18 min
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Hujowa Górka 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. The place took its name from the surname of Unterscharführer Albert Hujar who committed and directed the executions. It is also a mockery of Hujar's surname, which is pronounced similarly to a vulgar Polish language expression for "penis", hence the name is Polish for "Prick Hill", because it could be seen from almost any part of the camp. Before World War II, an old Austrian fortification of the 19th century, dismantled in the 1930s, had been located on a hill. After destroying the fort, a large hexagonal pit remained here, with a circumference of up to 50 meters and a depth of up to 5 meters.

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Address (Unnamed Road), Kraków 30, Poland
Coordinates 50°1'49.146" N, 19°57'55.467" E
Riverside Hotel
Taxi · 8 min
Hujowa Górka
2h
Walk · 6 min
Corner Café
45 min
Walk · 18 min
Riverside Hotel

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