Radostowice · subcamp of KL Auschwitz
Record no. 7 of 45
Preserved
A twenty man forestry detachment at Radostowice, one of the smallest subcamps in the whole network.
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
Forestry
From September 1942, with a break for the winter of 1942/1943, about twenty prisoners felled timber for the forestry board at Pszczyna. The detachment was dissolved in the autumn of 1943.
The forestry subcamps, that is Radostowice, Stara Wies, Kobior and Miedzyrzecze, formed a separate and little known group in which an ordinary residential building could serve as the camp.
The original buildings of the detachment were still standing in 2007 and 2008, during the field research of the Tiergartenstrasse4 Association.
The site is not marked. You get there only with the documentation in your hand, along road 935 from Oświęcim towards Pszczyna.
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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