Czechowice · subcamp of KL Auschwitz
Record no. 35 of 45
Preserved
A detachment whose task was to defuse unexploded bombs after the air raids on the refinery. It lasted less than a month.
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
Bomb disposal
After the Allied raids on the refinery at Czechowice about a hundred prisoners were sent to remove unexploded bombs from the works and the surrounding area. The detachment was formed on 20 August 1944 and dissolved in September.
It was work in which any day could be the last, and the men assigned to it were treated accordingly.
One of the two buildings in which the prisoners were quartered survives, the station building of Czechowice-Dziedzice Poludnie.
Neither at the station nor on the grounds of the former brewery bottling plant is there a plaque commemorating the prisoners of this detachment.
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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