Łagisza · subcamp of KL Auschwitz
Record no. 21 of 45
Nothing is left
A camp built for a single investment, a power station, and closed when the construction came to an end in September 1944.
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
Power station
From September 1943 up to a thousand prisoners built the Walter thermal power station for the state energy company. In January 1944 four hundred and seventy seven prisoners were recorded, in February four hundred and ninety nine.
Lagisza is one of the few subcamps closed before the evacuation of January 1945, simply because the work had run out.
The camp stood on ul. Energetyczna in Lagisza, an industrial district of Bedzin, roughly opposite the power station. It is not certain whether it was on the northern or the southern side of the street.
In front of the main gate of the Lagisza power station stands a stone obelisk commemorating the murdered prisoners of the subcamp.
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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