Kobiór · subcamp of KL Auschwitz
Record no. 10 of 45
Nothing is left
The largest of the forestry detachments. A hundred and fifty people in wooden barracks that were pulled down immediately after the war.
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
Forestry
From the autumn of 1942 to September 1943 about a hundred and fifty prisoners worked in the Pszczyna forests for the forestry board. They lived in barracks put up at the edge of the commune.
Kobior was larger than the other forestry subcamps, but it worked on the same principle: the camp was built where the work was.
Nothing is left of the camp, because the wooden barracks were dismantled after the war.
The place is nevertheless easy to find thanks to the monument on ul. Lesnikow. It is a rare case where the commemoration survived even though the camp disappeared.
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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