In Pustków-Osiedle, in the area of the former SS training grounds and forced labor camps, there is now a moving exhibition prepared by the European Center for Remembrance and Reconciliation. In the reconstructed barracks, souvenirs related to life in the camp, documents and models of objects were presented. The historical trail also tells about Nazi crimes. His route includes Mount of Death, on the top of which was a makeshift crematorium, used to burn the bodies of those murdered or deceased from exhaustion of prisoners.
In the years 1939–1940, at the premises of the Lignoza Explosive Material Factory, the Germans organized a training ground for SS departments, and then forced labor camps for Jews, Poles and Soviet prisoners of war. Soon the nearby hill of Queen Mountain gained gloomy fame of Death Mountain. In the years 1940-1944 about 15,000 lost their lives here. people.
Established in 2009, the European Center for Remembrance and Reconciliation addresses the difficult topics of World War II and the Holocaust, and conducts extensive educational activities. There are also temporary exhibitions here.
Attractions inside
