Trawniki [travˈniki] is a village in Świdnik County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland.

Following the duchy's dissolution in 1815, it was part of the Russian-controlled Congress Poland, since 1837 administratively located in the Lublin Governorate.

[4] From September 1941 until July 1944,[5] the camp was also used for training guards recruited from Soviet POWs, who were known as "Hiwi" (German letterword for 'Hilfswillige', lit.

In addition to serving as guards at concentration and death camps, the Trawniki men (German: Trawnikimänner) took part in Operation Reinhard, the Nazi extermination of Polish Jews.

They conducted executions at extermination camps and in Jewish ghettos, including at Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka II, Warsaw (three times, see Stroop Report), Częstochowa, Lublin, Lwów, Radom, Kraków, Białystok (twice), Majdanek as well as Auschwitz, and Trawniki itself.