Krosno-Dukla

Members of the Boys were slave labourers in the Krosno-Dukla labour camp complex in south-eastern Poland.

The Krosno-Dukla labour camp was set and run by Nazi Germany.

The Boys were teenage and child-Holocaust survivors, who were brought to the UK after the war for rest and rehabilitation.

Dukla is located 64km south of Rzeszów.

History

A series of labour camps were set up in the Krosno area in August 1942 under the command of the German air force after the deportation Aktion.

There were also two camps in Dukla also set up in August 1942.

One survivor describes these two forced labor camps as the “ghetto,” which consisted of four or five buildings located in two different neighborhoods of the town that were guarded by the Polish (Blue) Police.

Inmates worked in nearby quarries and building the road from Barwinek to Nowy Zmigrod for the companies of Artur Walde–Breslau and Emil Ludwig–München.

Work in the Dukla quarry was extremely harsh and the prisoner’s shoes wore out.

The camps were liquidated in November and December 1942 and the prisoners were transferred to other camps.

Only about 50 Jews from Dukla survived the German occupation in the camps or in hiding.