Světlá Hora · subcamp of KL Auschwitz
Record no. 43 of 45
Fragments preserved
The last Auschwitz subcamp to be created and one of the last to be dissolved. It operated until 8 May 1945.
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
Spinning mill
The subcamp opened on 11 November 1944, two and a half months before the evacuation of Auschwitz. About three hundred women were held here; on 30 December 1944 there were three hundred and twenty one.
They worked at the textile works of the firm Gustav Adolf Buhl und Sohn. The camp lasted until the last day of the war in Europe.
The grounds of the former camp in the centre of the small town of Světlá Hora are today occupied by a football stadium. Small fragments of foundations are visible around its edges.
There is no commemoration of the Auschwitz subcamp anywhere in Světlá Hora.
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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