Trawniki
Trawniki is a village in Świdnik County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina called Gmina Trawniki. It lies approximately south-east of Świdnik and south-east of the regional capital Lublin.
The village has a population of 2,893.History
During World War II Trawniki was the location of Trawniki concentration camp. This camp provided slave labourers for nearby industrial plants of the SS Ostindustrie where they worked in appalling conditions with little food.
From September 1941 until July 1944, the camp was also utilized for training guards recruited from Soviet POWs, known as "Hiwi", for service with Auxiliary police in occupied Poland. The Trawniki men took part in Operation Reinhard, the Nazi extermination of. They conducted executions at extermination camps and in Jewish ghettos including at Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka II, Warsaw, Częstochowa, Lublin, Lvov, Radom, Kraków, Białystok, Majdanek as well as Auschwitz, and Trawniki itself.
