The Plaszów concentration camp on the outskirts of Krakow opens its doors as a museum this Friday. More than 6,000 shootings and hundreds more deaths from forced labor occurred there.
The infamous commander who designed and ran the camp was Amon Goeth. Some 150,000 people, mostly Poles and Hungarians, died in the camp and, when the Red Army of the Soviet Union arrived in January 1945, only 2,000 prisoners remained alive. The house in which, in a famous scene in the film, the camp commander shoots several prisoners from the balcony while smoking a cigarette is known by locals as the "Gray House"