More than 40 Auschwitz
sub-camps, exploiting the prisoners as slave laborers, were
founded, mainly at various sorts of German industrial plants
and farms, between 1942 and 1944.
• Altdorf in Stara Wieś near Pszczyna (1942
– 1943). Forestry work, employer: Oberforstamt Pless (Pszczyna
forestry authority), 10-20 prisoners.
• Althammer in Stara Kuźnia near Halemba
(September 1944 - January 1945). Construction of thermal
electric power plant, 486 prisoners (January 17, 1945).
• Babitz in Babice near Oświęcim (March
1943 - January 1945). Agricultural work on an SS farm, 159
men prisoners (January 17, 1945) and approximately 180 women
prisoners (summer 1944).
• Birkenau in Brzezinka (1943 - January
1945). Agricultural work on an SS farm, 204 men prisoners
(January 17, 1945).
• Bismarckhütte in Chorzów (September
1944 - January 1945). Production of cannons and armored
vehicles in the Bismarck mill, company: Berghütte -Königs
und Bismarckhütte AG, 192 prisoners (January 17, 1945).
• Blechhammer in Sławięcice near
Blachownia Śląska (April 1944 - January 1945). Construction
of chemical plant, company: O/S Hydrierwerke AG, 3958
prisoners (January 17, 1945) and 157 women prisoners
(December 30, 1944).
• Bobrek in Bobrek near Oświęcim (May
1944 - January 1945, first prisoners employed here in
December 1943). Production of electrical apparatus for
aircraft and submarines, company: Siemens-Schuckerwerke AG,
213 men prisoners (January 17, 1945) and 38 women prisoners
(December 30, 1944).
• Brünn in Brno (Czechoslovakia)
(October 1943 - January 1945). Construction work on the SS
and Police Technical Academy, employer: SS-WVHA bureau C -Bauleitung
Brünn, 250 prisoners (October 1943), 36 prisoners (January
17, 1945).
• Budy in Budy near Oświęcim (April 1943
- autumn 1944). Agricultural labor on an SS farm, several
hundred women prisoners.
• Budy in Budy near Oświęcim (April 1942
- January 1945, with an interruption in the autumn and
winter of 1942/43). Agricultural labor on an SS farm, 313
prisoners (January 17, 1945).
• Budy in Budy near Oświęcim (June 1942
- spring 1943). Agricultural labor on an SS farm including
drainage work (digging ditches) and cleaning and deepening
fish ponds, approximately 400 women prisoners from the penal
company (summer 1942).
• Buna, see Monowitz
• Charlottegrube in Rydułtowy (September
1944 - January 1945). Coal mining and mine construction work
at the Charlotte mine, company: Hermann Göring Werke, 833
prisoners (January 17, 1945).
• Chełmek in Chełmek (October 1942 -
December 1942). Labor at the shoe factory (deepening and
cleaning the water reservoir), company: Ota Schlesische
Schuh-werke (formerly Bata), approximately 150 prisoners.
• Eintrachthütte in Świętochłowice (May
1943 - January 1945). Production of anti-aircraft artillery
in the Eintracht mill, company: Berghütte-OSMAG i
Ost-Maschinenbau, 1,297 prisoners (January 17, 1945).
• Freudenthal in Bruntalu (Protectorate
of Bohemia and Moravia) (1944 -January 1945). Emmerich
Machold company, 301 women prisoners (December 30, 1944),
fruit-processing labor.
• Fürstengrube in Wesoła near Mysłowice
(September 1943 - January 1945). Coal mining and the
excavation of a new mine at the Fürsten mine, company:
Fürstengrube GmbH, 1,283 prisoners (January 17, 1945).
• Gleiwitz I in Gliwice (March 1944 -
January 1945). Repair of railroad rolling stock, company:
Reichsbahnausbesserungswerk, 1,336 prisoners (January 17,
1945).
• Gleiwitz II in Gliwice (May 1944 -
January 1945). Production of coal tar (women), repair and
maintenance of machinery, factory expansion (men), company:
Deutsche Gasrusswerke GmbH, 740 men prisoners (January 17,
1945) and 371 women prisoners (December 30, 1944).
• Gleiwitz III in Gliwice (July 1944 -
January 1945). Renovation of the Glewitzer Hütte factory
building, followed by production of arms, ammunition, and
railroad wheels, company: Zieleniewski-Maschinen und
Waggonbau GmbH, Krakau, 609 prisoners (January 17, 1945).
• Gleiwitz IV in Gliwice (June 1944 -
January 1945). Expansion of barracks, repair and
reconditioning of military vehicles, 444 prisoners (January
17, 1945).
• Golleschau in Goleszów (July 1942 -
January 1945). Labor in SS cement plant, company:
Ostdeutsche Baustoffwerke GmbH-Goleschauer Portland Zement
AG, 1,008 prisoners (January 17, 1945).
• Günthergrube in Lędziny (February 1944
- January 1945). Coal mining in the Piast mine and
construction of the Günther mine, company: Fürstlich
Plessische Bergwerks AG, 586 prisoners (January 17, 1945).
• Harmense in Harmęże near Oświęcim
(December 1941 - summer 1943). Agricultural labor on an SS
farm (raising poultry, rabbits, and fish), approximately 70
prisoners.
• Harmense in Harmęże near Oświęcim
(June 1942 - January 1945). Agricultural labor on an SS farm
(raising poultry, rabbits, and fish), approximately 50 women
prisoners.
• Hindenburg in Zabrze (August 1944 -
January 1945). Production of weapons and ammunition in the
Donnersmark mill, company: Vereinigte Oberschlesische
Hüttenwerke AG, 50 prisoners (January 17, 1945) and 470
women prisoners (December 30, 1944).
• Hubertshütte in Łagiewniki (December
1944 - January 1945). Labor in the Huberts mill, company:
Berghütte Königs und Bismarckhütte AG, 202 prisoners
(January 17, 1945).
• Janinagrube in Libiąż (September 1943
- January 1945). Coal mining in the Janina mine, company:
Fürstengrube GmbH, 853 prisoners (January 17, 1945).
• Jawischowitz in Jawiszowice (August
1942 - January 1945). Coal mining and surface construction
work at the Brzeszcze-Jawischowitz mine, company:
Reichswerke Hermann Göring, 1988 prisoners (January 17,
1945).
• Kobior in Kobiór (1942 - 1943).
Forestry work, employer: Oberforstamt Pless (Pszczyna
forestry authority), 158 prisoners (April 25, 1943).
• Lagischa in Łagisza (September 1943 -
September 1944). Construction of the Walter thermal electric
power plant, company: Energie-Versorgung Oberschlesien AG,
approximately 1000 prisoners.
• Laurahütte in Siemianowice (April 1944
- January 1945). Production of anti-aircraft artillery in
the Laura mill, company: Berghütte - Königs und
Bismarckhütte, 937 prisoners (January 17, 1945).
• Lichtewerden w Světlá (Protectorate of
Bohemia and Moravia) (November 1944 -January 1945). Labor in
a thread factory, company: G.A. Buhl und Sohn, 300 women
prisoners (December 30, 1944).
• Monowitz (Buna) in Monowice near
Oświęcim (October 1942 - January 1945, first prisoners
employed in April 1941). Construction of a chemical complex,
company: IG Farbenindustrie AG, 10,223 prisoners (January
17, 1945).
• Neu-Dachs in Jaworzno (June 1943 -
January 1945). Coal mining in the Jaworzno mines and
construction of the Wilhelm electric power plant, company:
Energie Versorgung Oberschlesien AG, 3,664 prisoners
(January 17, 1945).
• Neustadt in Prudnik (September 1944 -
January 1945). Work in a textile mill, company: Schlesische
Feinweberei AG, 399 women prisoners (December 30, 1944)
• Plawy in Pławy near Oswięcim (1944 -
January 1945). Agricultural labor on an SS farm, 138 men
prisoners (January 17, 1945) and approximately 200 women
prisoners (January 1945)
• Radostowitz in Radostowice near
Pszczyna (1942 - 1943). with an interruption in the winter
of 1942/1943, Forestry work, employer: Oberforstamt Pless (Pszczyna
forestry authority), approximately 20 prisoners.
• Raisko in Rajsko (June 1943 - January
1945). Agricultural labor on an SS farm (gardening and
experimental cultivation of the rubber plant), approximately
300 women prisoners (1944).
• Sonderkommando Kattowitz in Katowice
(January 1944 - January 1945). Construction of air-raid
shelters and barracks for the Gestapo, 10 prisoners.
• Sosnowitz (I) in Sosnowiec (August
1943 - February 1944). Renovation of an office building, 100
prisoners.
• Sosnowitz (II) in Sosnowiec (May 1944
- January 1945). Labor in a steel mill, casting barrels for
anti-aircraft cannon and producing shells, company:
Berghütte-Ost-Maschinenbau GmbH, 863 prisoners (January 17,
1945).
Solnica near Gliwice (July - August
1940). Demolition of buildings at the site of a POW camp,
approximately 30 prisoners.
SS Hütte Porombka in Międzybrodzie
(October-November 1940 - January 1945). Construction and
staffing of an SS rest house, (several dozen prisoners
during construction, less than ten women prisoners during
normal service).
2 SS Bauzug in Karlsruhe (September 1944
- October 1944). Clearing rubble and repairing railroad
lines in the city, employer: SS-WVHA Bureau C, approximately
500 prisoners. (The prisoners were quartered in railroad
freight cars. Around October 10, 1944, the sub-camp was
placed under the control of Buchenwald Concentration Camp
and, several days later, was renamed 7-SS
Eisenbahnbaubrigade and transferred to Stuttgart).
Trzebinia in Trzebinia (August 1944 -
January 1945). Expansion of the refinery, company: Erdöl
Raffinerie GmbH, 641 prisoners (January 17, 1945).
Tschechowitz (I) - Bombensucherkommando
in Czechowice Dziedzice (August -September 1944). Removal of
unexploded bombs from the refinery and surrounding areas,
company: Vacuum Oil Company, approximately 100 prisoners.
Tschechowitz (II) - Vacuum in Czechowice
Dziedzice (September 1944 - January 1945). Clearing rubble
and maintaining the refinery, company: Vacuum Oil Company,
561 prisoners (January 17, 1945). |