Hujowa Górka, Holocaust execution site in Kraków, Poland
Hujowa Górka is an execution site within the former Płaszów camp area in Kraków. The location features a six-sided pit roughly 50 meters around and 5 meters deep, marked by a wooden cross wrapped in barbed wire.
Between late summer 1943 and February 1944, German occupiers carried out systematic shootings here. Victims were placed in mass graves within the pit.
The location name derives from SS officer Albert Hujar, combining his surname with 'górka', meaning small hill in Polish, creating an unintentional double meaning.
The memorial lies within the former camp grounds of Płaszów, reachable by walking from other memorial sites in this area. The ground remains uneven and the surroundings are kept quiet.
The pit originated from the demolition of an Austrian military fortification in the 1930s. This depression was later used by occupiers for executions.
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