Gliwice · subcamp of KL Auschwitz
Record no. 25 of 45
Fragments preserved
The first of the four Gliwice subcamps. Wagons and tanks were repaired here for the Reich railways.
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
Ironworks
From March 1944 prisoners worked in the repair workshops of the Reich railways, overhauling rolling stock and tanks. On 17 January 1945 there were one thousand three hundred and thirty six of them.
Gliwice is the only city in which four separate Auschwitz subcamps operated, each with its own commander.
So little survives that establishing the exact location of the camp has proved very difficult.
On ul. Przewozowa, on the grounds of the Welding Institute, there is a plaque from 1979 recording the existence of a branch of KL Auschwitz in this area. The camp itself, however, stood elsewhere.
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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