Czechowice · subcamp of KL Auschwitz
Record no. 40 of 45
Preserved
One of the few subcamps whose buildings survived the war practically unchanged.
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
Chemicals and fuel
From September 1944 about six hundred men cleared rubble after the air raids and kept the refinery running. On 17 January 1945 there were five hundred and sixty one of them.
The refinery, before the war the property of the Vacuum Oil Company, was taken over by the German occupation authorities.
The grounds of the former camp lie opposite the Czechowice refinery, by the railway line, opposite the Czechowice-Rafineria halt, on ul. Lukaszewicza. The camp buildings have remained almost untouched.
This is a place where the scale and the layout of a camp can be read without any reconstruction. A rarity among the forty five subcamps.
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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