Babice · subcamp of KL Auschwitz
Record no. 13 of 45
Fragments preserved
An SS farm at Babice near Oświęcim, where the women's camp was a school building that still stands today.
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
Farm
In all, about three hundred and sixty male and female prisoners were held at Babice. The women's camp numbered about two hundred people; on 17 January 1945 a hundred and fifty nine men remained here.
The Wirtschaftshöfe, that is the camp's farms, supplied food to the SS garrison. Their prisoners worked in the fields all year round.
On ul. Rozana in Babice the former school building in which the women prisoners were quartered survives. The ground floor held the rooms for the SS guards.
A metal plaque was placed on the front wall of the building in 2004, stating that between 1943 and 1945 the Babice subcamp of KL Auschwitz was located here.
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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