Wieliczka
(Veil-ex-ca)
Salt Mine
1943-1944
Jack was one of fifty men taken out of Plaszow to go work in the salt mine, here prisoners would each get a pickax to mine with they were forced to haul wheelbarrows of salt through the confusing tunnels in Wieliczka. If they were to return with the wrong amount of salt they would be executed, there was also something very strange in this mine that these prisoners would never expect, there were beautiful sculptures made of salt. Jack however did everything he was told because he was determined to survive, while he was there he saw a familiar person, it was the judenrat (policeman) from Krakow. Other men had taken notice to him as well and he was found dead with salt rubbed in his wounds the next morning.
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