Sosnowiec · subcamp of KL Auschwitz
Record no. 30 of 45
Fragments preserved
A subcamp between the railway tracks in Sosnowiec, of which the foundations remain. The site today is falling apart.
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 May 1944 about nine hundred men worked at the ironworks casting anti-aircraft gun barrels and producing shells. On 17 January 1945 there were eight hundred and sixty three of them.
The works were part of the Berghütte concern from Cieszyn, the same one that owned Eintrachthütte and Bismarckhütte.
The remains of the camp lie on ul. Niwecka in Sosnowiec, between the railway lines. During the field research the foundations of many camp buildings were visible.
On the grounds of the subcamp itself there is no monument and no plaque. A memorial plaque from 1985 stands at the entrance gate of the ironworks.
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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