The bathhouse of the Jawiszowice subcamp

The Jawischowitz subcamp operated from August 1942 to January 1945 and at its peak held two and a half thousand people. It was one of the largest camps in the whole network and the first in which prisoners were sent to work underground.

The bathhouse was one of the few brick buildings in the camp and that is why it survived. Every newly arrived transport passed through it, and every shift coming up from below. Today it houses a small exhibition.

From here you step onto the grounds of the former camp. There is a municipal park there whose shape and boundaries still follow the outline of the subcamp, and an information board stands on the site of the main gate. It is one of the few places where the scale of a camp can be walked on foot and felt in the legs, not merely read off a plan.