Haapalah / Aliyah Bet

Obóz Janowski
KZ Janowska
Zwangsarbeitslager Lemberg-Janowska

In September, 1941, Janowska labor, transit and concentration camp was established on the outskirts of Lwów, near ulica Janowska.
The Germans set up a Deutsche Ausrüstungswerke, German Armament Works, DAW workshop in prewar Steinahus' mill machines factory on 134 ulica Janowska, owned and operated by the SS.

In October 1941, the Nazis established a concentration camp beside the factory on ulica Janowska, which housed the forced laborers, where thousands of Jews from the Lwów Ghetto were forced to work as slave laborers.
When the Lwów Ghetto was liquidated, the ghetto's inhabitants who were fit for work were sent to the Janowska camp; the rest were transported to the Belzec camp for extermination.

In 1942, Durchgangslager Janowska served as a transit camp during the mass deportations of Polish Jews to at Auschwitz-Birkenau and Majdanek extermination camps, and the majority of prisoners, rejected as unfit for work, were deported to Belzec or were shot at the Piaski ravine, north of the camp.
In the summer and fall of 1942, thousands of Jews, mainly from the Lwów Ghetto, were deported to Janowska and killed in the Piaski ravine.

In November, 1943, the Nazis began the evacuation of the Janowska camp, and attempted to destroy the traces of mass murder, Sonderaktion 1005, by forcing prisoners to open the mass graves and burn the bodies in Lesienicki forest.
On November 19, 1943, prisoners staged an uprising against the Nazis and attempted a mass escape.
A few prisoners escaped, but most were recaptured and killed.
The SS and their local auxiliaries murdered at least 6,000 Jews, who had survived the uprising killings, as well as Jews in other forced labor camps in Galicia, during the Janowska camp liquidation.