Brzezinka · subcamp of KL Auschwitz
Record no. 18 of 45
Fragments preserved
A farm a kilometre from the Birkenau gate, so close that the prisoners could see the smoke from the crematoria while working in the fields.
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
From August 1943 between two hundred and two hundred and sixty men worked here; on 17 January 1945 there were two hundred and four of them.
Wirtschaftshof Birkenau was the nearest of the camp's farms and the most closely tied to it.
The remains of the farm lie in the village of Brzezinka, about a kilometre north east of the main Birkenau gate. Post-war changes to the landscape make individual structures hard to identify.
There is no commemoration at the subcamp itself. An information board stands at the entrance to Auschwitz II-Birkenau, put up by former residents of the camp's Zone of Interest.
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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