Poniatowa concentration camp (Poland)

A subcamp of the Majdanek camp system. Jewish prisoners selected for forced labor in the armaments sector were incarcerated at Poniatowa from October 1942. Poniatowa was the largest Jewish labor camp in the Generalgouvernement. All of its prisoners--approximately 15,000 people--were murdered during Operation "Harvest Festival" on November 3-4, 1943.