Świętochłowice · subcamp of KL Auschwitz
Record no. 14 of 45
Fragments preserved
Of the whole subcamp at Swietochlowice three stone gateposts survive, today among allotment gardens.
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 1943 prisoners produced anti-aircraft guns for the Wehrmacht at the Eintracht ironworks. The strength varied from four hundred to one thousand three hundred and seventy four people; in January 1945 there were one thousand two hundred and ninety seven.
The works belonged to the Berghütte concern, with its head office in Cieszyn. Armaments production made the subcamp a priority site, and that is why it operated until the very end.
The grounds of the subcamp are today occupied by the Zgoda workers' allotment gardens on ul. Wojska Polskiego in Swietochlowice. The only surviving element of the camp is three stone posts of the main gate.
In 1970 a bronze plaque with elements symbolising the camp striped uniforms was fixed to the new administrative building.
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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