Kozelsk camp

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Kozelsk camp was a Soviet prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, notorious as one of the main sites where Polish officers were held before being executed in the Katyn massacre.

All labels observed (2)

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Kozelsk camp canonical 1
Starobelsk camp 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Soviet prisoner-of-war camp
military prison camp
associatedWithCrime mass execution of Polish POWs
category Katyn massacre
Stalingrad prisoner-of-war camp
surface form: World War II prisoner-of-war camps of the Soviet Union
country Soviet Union
establishedAfter Soviet occupation of Eastern Poland
surface form: Soviet invasion of Poland
guardedBy NKVD
surface form: NKVD guards
hasHeritageDesignation site of remembrance of Katyn victims
historicalContext Soviet repression of Polish elites
languageOfAdministration Russian
locatedIn Kaluga Oblast NERFINISHED
Kozelsk
Russian SFSR
western Russia
memorializedBy Katyn war cemetery
surface form: Katyn memorials and commemorations
notableFor holding Polish officers prior to the Katyn massacre
operatedBy People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs
surface form: NKVD

Soviet state security organs
surface form: Soviet security services
partOf Soviet POW camp system
prisonerNationality Polish
prisonerType Polish Army officers
Polish intelligentsia
Polish police officers
relatedEvent Katyn massacre
relatedTo Ostashkov camp
Starobelsk camp
significance symbol of Soviet crimes against Poles in World War II
startEvent following the September 1939 campaign in Poland
timePeriod 1939–1940
transferDestination Katyn war cemetery
surface form: Katyn Forest

Katyn war cemetery
surface form: NKVD execution sites near Smolensk
usedDuring World War II
usedFor detention of Polish prisoners of war
internment of Polish officers
victimCountry Second Polish Republic
victimGroup Polish officer corps

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Polish POWs heldIn Kozelsk camp
Polish POWs heldIn Kozelsk camp
this entity surface form: Starobelsk camp