Wesoła · subcamp of KL Auschwitz
Record no. 19 of 45
Fragments preserved
A company set up in order to employ prisoners, and a camp built beside the shaft. Of the whole thing a seventy metre section of wall is left.
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
Fürstengrube GmbH was founded jointly by I.G. Farbenindustrie and the Pszczyna mining company. The camp was built beside the mine to shorten the way between roll call and the descent underground.
On 17 January 1945 one thousand two hundred and eighty three men were held here. Coal mining and the construction of the new Fürsten pit went on until the last days.
At the level crossing on ul. Murckowska in Myslowice, in the Wesola-Murcki district, only a seventy metre section of the southern wall survives.
At the former entrance to the camp grounds stands a commemoration: a two and a half metre white cross of welded steel tubing, with stone vases at its corners.
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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