Lędziny · subcamp of KL Auschwitz
Record no. 24 of 45
Nothing is left
Two camps at Ledziny, Lager Heimat and Lager Günther III, of which nothing survives but one small monument.
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
Coal mine
From February 1944 between three and six hundred men worked at the Piastschächte pit and on the construction of the Günther pit. On 17 January 1945 there were five hundred and eighty six of them.
The subcontractors on the construction were the firms Schüchtermann und Kremer Bau AG and Beton-Monteur Bau.
Lager Heimat stood roughly halfway along ul. Paderewskiego in Ledziny. Nothing of the original camp buildings survives.
A small monument was raised on the site of Lager Heimat in 1964. At Lager Günther III there is no commemoration at all.
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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