Katowice · subcamp of KL Auschwitz
Record no. 23 of 45
Preserved
Eleven Auschwitz prisoners built an air raid shelter for the Katowice Gestapo. This is the smallest subcamp 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
Other
The detachment numbered eleven people and worked at the Gestapo headquarters in Katowice throughout 1944. For the first three weeks the prisoners slept in one of the rooms on the spot.
The subcamp was linked to three addresses in the city, established during field research in 2006 and 2007.
The building of the former Gestapo headquarters on ul. Powstancow still stands today and is in use.
By the main entrance is a plaque that begins with the words: “Look — these walls are steeped in crime.”
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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