Siemianowice · subcamp of KL Auschwitz
Record no. 27 of 45
Nothing is left
A subcamp at the edge of the Laura ironworks, where anti-aircraft guns were made for the Rheinmetall-Borsig 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
Ironworks
From April 1944 prisoners worked on the production of anti-aircraft guns at the Laura ironworks. On 17 January 1945 there were nine hundred and thirty seven of them.
The camp stood in the far northern corner of the ironworks grounds, between ul. Sienkiewicza and ul. Glowackiego.
Nothing of the camp buildings survives. The grounds of the former Laura ironworks, later the Jednosc ironworks, are in a state of advancing decay.
The subcamp is commemorated by stone plaques on the front wall of the works administration building on ul. 27 Stycznia in Siemianowice Slaskie.
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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