Neu-Dachs

Jaworzno · subcamp of KL Auschwitz

Record no. 15 of 45
Fragments preserved

3 664 Prisoners on 17 January 1945

The third largest subcamp of Auschwitz. In January 1945 more than three and a half thousand men were held here.

German name: Neu-Dachs
Established: 15 June 1943
Closed: 17 January 1945
Subordinate to: Auschwitz III-Monowitz (from November 1943)
Employer: Energie-Versorgung Oberschlesien AG (EVO)
Type of work: Coal mining and the construction of the Wilhelm power station
Surviving structures: Single buildings, hard to identify
Access: Jaworzno, ul. Grunwaldzka and nearby streets

Period of operation against the Auschwitz system

JUN 1943 — JAN 1945

1940

1941

1942

1943

1944

1945

All 45 subcamps of KL Auschwitz on one map, this one marked with a ring. The filled square is Auschwitz I, the empty one Auschwitz II-Birkenau.

Distances in a straight line — approximate

Auschwitz I≈ 20 km
Auschwitz II-Birkenau≈ 20 km
Krakow≈ 50 km
TownJaworzno

Measured from the centre of the town, accurate to within a few kilometres.

Branch of industry in the register

Coal mine

What happened here

The strength grew sharply: a hundred people in June 1943, one thousand six hundred in August, about two thousand in January 1944, three thousand two hundred in the summer of 1944 and three thousand six hundred and sixty four on the day of the evacuation.

The prisoners worked in the Jaworzno pits Dachsgrube, Rudolfgrube and Richardgrube and on the construction of the Wilhelm power station for the state energy company.

What is left

The grounds of the former camp are today occupied by ul. Grunwaldzka, ul. Puszkina and ul. Inwalidow Wojennych in Jaworzno, built up with small workshops. Identifying the original buildings has proved difficult.

On ul. Grunwaldzka stands a stone monument raised over a mass grave of prisoners. The place commemorates both the Auschwitz subcamp and the post-war COP Jaworzno camp.

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.

Museum gallery →

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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