Stara Kuźnia · subcamp of KL Auschwitz
Record no. 37 of 45
Fragments preserved
The foundations of the camp kitchen and a concrete one man shelter. That is all that is left of a camp where five hundred people worked.
Period of operation against the Auschwitz system
Distances in a straight line — approximate
Measured from the centre of the town, accurate to within a few kilometres.
Branch of industry in the register
Power station
From September 1944 about five hundred men built a thermal power station. On 17 January 1945 there were four hundred and eighty six of them.
Althammer operated for less than five months, until the evacuation of January 1945.
Driving from Halemba towards Stara Kuznica along ul. Skargi, part of a ruined Einmannbunker air raid shelter can be seen, a concrete cylinder for one person.
Halfway along the path that crosses the grounds of the former camp, on the right hand side, the foundations of the building known as the new kitchen survive.
Archival photographs of this place
Photographs and documents from the time the camp existed are held and made available by the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim.
Sources — the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim, archive and historical collections · Re-Finding the Sub Camps of Auschwitz, field research by the Tiergartenstrasse4 Association 2005–2008, subcamps-auschwitz.org · field documentation by Auschwitz Subcamps.
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