Sosnowiec · subcamp of KL Auschwitz
Record no. 17 of 45
Preserved
The whole subcamp was housed in a single tenement building: prisoners' quarters, guards' rooms and the place of work under one roof.
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
From August 1943 about a hundred prisoners renovated the building that had earlier housed the Central Office of the Jewish Councils of Elders. From December the strength fell to fifty people, and in February 1944 the camp was closed.
This is one of the few subcamps in which the place of quarters and the place of work were the same address.
The tenement house at ul. Targowa 12 in Sosnowiec still stands today. It held the prisoners' quarters, the rooms of the SS guards and the place of work.
There is no plaque on the building and no commemoration of the subcamp of any kind.
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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