Goleszów · subcamp of KL Auschwitz
Record no. 5 of 45
Fragments preserved
The cement plant at Goleszow belonged to the SS. Camp and works had the same owner, which removed the last barrier between imprisonment and production.
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
SS detachment
Golleschauer Portland-Zementfabrik AG passed into the economic administration of the SS, and the labour was supplied by a subcamp set up in July 1942. In January 1945 more than a thousand men were held here.
The work of making cement, in the dust, at the kilns and at the loading bays, was among the heaviest in the whole network of subcamps.
In the centre of Goleszow, on ul. Cieszynska, stands the building of the former cement plant management. During the war it housed the offices of Golleschauer Portland Zement-Fabrik AG. It is one of the few surviving structures connected with the subcamp.
A plaque with a Polish inscription commemorating the prisoners was placed on the wall of the building in 1969.
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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