Gliwice · subcamp of KL Auschwitz
Record no. 31 of 45
Nothing is left
The fourth Gliwice subcamp, and the one about which least is known. There is no certainty that any of the surviving remains belonged to it.
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
Construction work
The strength reached eight hundred people in August and September 1944; on 17 January 1945 four hundred and forty four men remained here.
The prisoners were employed by Organisation Todt, the Zieleniewski company and the military administration of the city. It is an arrangement typical of the last phase of the war, when the labour force was divided between several users.
Because so little remains, establishing the exact location of the camp was difficult. There is no certainty that the surviving fragments come from Gleiwitz IV at all. The site is today occupied by allotment gardens.
On ul. Andersa in Gliwice, near the roundabout, stands a monument with a plaque recording the existence of a branch of KL Auschwitz in this area.
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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