Brünn

Brno · subcamp of KL Auschwitz

Record no. 22 of 45
Preserved

251 Prisoners in October 1943

An Auschwitz subcamp in the middle of Brno, at the construction of the SS Technical Academy. It lasted longer than any other, until the end of April 1945.

German name: Brünn
Established: October 1943
Closed: end of April 1945
Subordinate to: Auschwitz III-Monowitz (from November 1943)
Employer: SS-WVHA, Bauleitung Brünn
Type of work: Construction of the SS and Police Technical Academy
Surviving structures: The main Academy building, four storeys
Access: Brno, Rezkova and Barvičova streets, still in use

Period of operation against the Auschwitz system

OCT 1943 — APR 1945

1940

1941

1942

1943

1944

1945

All 45 subcamps of KL Auschwitz on one map, this one marked with a ring. The filled square is Auschwitz I, the empty one Auschwitz II-Birkenau. This camp lies outside the frame; the arrow shows its direction.

Distances in a straight line — approximate

Auschwitz I≈ 210 km
Auschwitz II-Birkenau≈ 210 km
Krakow≈ 260 km
TownBrno

Measured from the centre of the town, accurate to within a few kilometres.

Branch of industry in the register

SS detachment

What happened here

In October 1943 two hundred and fifty one prisoners were brought here, in December there were about a hundred and fifty, in January 1945 thirty six, and in May about thirty.

They were building the Technische Akademie der SS und Polizei. The camp outlasted the evacuation of Auschwitz and went on working for four months after it.

What is left

The main building of the former SS and Police Technical Academy stands on a hill between Rezkova and Barvičova streets in Brno. It has four storeys and two wings.

No commemoration of the subcamp is known at this place.

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.

Museum gallery →

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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