The Trawniki training camp was dismantled in July 1944 because of the approaching frontline . The last 1,000 '' Hiwis '' forming the '' SS Battalion Streibel '' led by Karl Streibel himself , were transported west to continue their deeds at the still functioning death camps . The Jews of the adjacent Trawniki labor camp were massacred in November 1943 during '' Aktion Erntefest '' . Their exhumed bodies were incinerated in '' Sonderaktion 1005 '' by a '' Sonderkommando '' from Milejów who in turn were executed on site upon the completion of their task by the end of 1943 . The Soviets entered the completely empty training facility on July 23 , 1944 . After the war , they captured and prosecuted hundreds , possibly as many as one thousand '' Hiwis '' who returned home to USSR according to '' Holocaust Encyclopedia '' . The more conservative number of trials given by Kudryashov is over 140 between 1944 and 1987 . Most defendants were sentenced to a Gulag , and released under the Khrushchev amnesty of 1955
Aktion Erntefest
Aktion Erntefest
Trawniki men