Trawniki
A village in eastern
Poland whose name became associated with the mostly
Ukrainian guards who were recruited to serve in the
concentration camps and, in particular, the
death camps in which millions of Jews were murdered in the
Holocaust. They were trained at a camp in Trawniki, where there was also a (comparatively) smaller labour camp and transit camp. But the name is mostly used to stand for those guards, hence also in the plural, the Trawnikis.
Today, very little is left to be seen at the place, except for a small memorial, parts of the former camp wall, the former commandant's building and the former sugar factory buildings, which formed a main part of the camp – and which are now used by a textiles manufacturer.
It may be worth a short stopover en route when driving around in the Lublin area, but is not a prime destination (because of the lack of tourist infrastructure and commodification), despite its rather special historical significance.
Location: some 25 miles (40 km) east of Lublin (see
Majdanek).