Gliwice · subcamp of KL Auschwitz
Record no. 29 of 45
Fragments preserved
The second of the Gliwice subcamps, with a separate women's camp, at the production of carbon black for the Degussa concern.
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
Chemicals and fuel
On 17 January 1945 seven hundred and forty men were held here, and on 30 December 1944 three hundred and seventy one women. The women worked on the production of carbon black.
The men were employed on machine repairs and on the expansion of the works and the coking plant. There were three separate firms as employers.
On ul. Pszczynska in Gliwice two long barracks from the time of the subcamp survive, today in the hands of a private company and rebuilt.
The monument to the subcamp stands about two hundred metres from its actual grounds, at the junction of ul. Pszczynska and ul. Pocztowa. It was raised in 1979.
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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