Rydułtowy · subcamp of KL Auschwitz
Record no. 38 of 45
Fragments preserved
At Rydultowy the Germans set up five camps; Auschwitz prisoners probably passed through all of them. Administratively they formed a single subcamp.
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
Coal mine
From September 1944 about a thousand men worked at coal mining and pit work at the Charlotte mine and at the power station. On 17 January 1945 there were eight hundred and thirty three of them.
The five Rydultowy camps were under a single Lagerführer and for that reason are counted as one subcamp.
The state of preservation differs from site to site. At the first of the camps, on ul. Mickiewicza, in the so-called stables, nothing survives.
The commemoration is a large monument in the centre of the town on ul. Ofiar Terroru. About fifty metres behind it ran the Annarampe.
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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