It sounds as if you are thinking of Auschwitz. Please note that it was a Nazi German camp in Poland. It was certainly not run by the Polish government.
The original camp was intended for members of the Polish elite and for Polish resisters but it expanded rapidly.
Auschwitz I was the original Auschwitz camp, set up in May 1940, mainly for Polish political prisoners and the Polish elites. It also housed the main administrative offices for the whole complex of camps as well as the blocks where medical experiments were carried out, and execution chambers.
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A WWII concentration camp holding Jews and polish prisoners of war.
In 1944 she was transferred to the Auschwitz concentration camp.
there is no single concentration camp, if you mean one in particular, then name it.
It was a concentration camp in what is now the Czech Republic. Another name for it is Terezin. About 33,000 died in the camp.
It is also called a death camp.
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Auschwitz is the German name for the Polish town of Oswiecim, which is about 42 miles west of Krakow. The notorious concentration and extermination camps (actually a vast complex of camps) was well outside the town and surrounded by an exclusion zone while the camp was in operation.
Kazimierz Andrzej Jaworski has written: 'Serca za drutem' -- subject(s): Polish Poets, Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp), Polish Personal narratives, World War, 1939-1945, Concentration camp inmates, Biography 'Pisma'
Auschwitz.