Initially prisoners were petty criminals, people deemed anti-social or trespassers of the new race laws. Later on resistance fighters, political prisoners and innocent hostages were detained as well. Another section was used as a transit camp for Jews being sent to death camps such as Auschwitz. (20 September 1940)
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Saturday 29th of August 1987 (-) — The bodies of Leader of the Evangelical Baptist Church Park Soon-ja and her three children and 29 members of the cult are found poisoned, strangled and beaten to death in the attic of Park's Odaeyang Trading Co. tourist souvenir factory.