Gliwice · subcamp of KL Auschwitz
Record no. 32 of 45
Preserved
One of the few subcamps preserved almost in its entirety. The grounds and the buildings survived inside a working factory.
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 July 1944 prisoners renovated a factory hall of the Gleiwitzer Hütte and then worked on the production of weapons, ammunition and railway wheels. On 17 January 1945 there were six hundred and nine of them.
The works belonged to the Vereinigte Oberschlesische Hüttenwerke AG concern.
The subcamp stood on the grounds of what is today the Gliwice Technical Equipment Works on ul. Robotnicza. The complex survived almost untouched, which is exceptional across the whole network.
On the square by the main works road stands a monument commemorating the suffering and death of the prisoners of Gleiwitz III.
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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