Zabrze · subcamp of KL Auschwitz
Record no. 34 of 45
Fragments preserved
A subcamp at Zabrze with a majority of women. Four hundred and sixty nine women prisoners at the production of military lorries.
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 August 1944 about four hundred and fifty women and seventy men worked here. On 30 December 1944 four hundred and sixty nine women prisoners were recorded, and on 17 January 1945 seventy men.
Lorries for transporting armaments were produced at the Donnersmarck ironworks; some of the prisoners were sent to the Concordia mine.
The camp stood along ul. Hagera in Zabrze, in the area of ul. Kasprowicza. On its left hand side there are allotment gardens today.
Neither on the grounds of the former ironworks and the Concordia mine nor on the site of the camp itself is there any commemoration.
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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