Budy · subcamp of KL Auschwitz
Record no. 4 of 45
Fragments preserved
The men's part of the estate at Budy, beside which a women's camp and a penal company operated. This is the site of one of the worst crimes in the history of the camp.
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 April 1942, with a break for the autumn and winter of 1942/1943, between two and four hundred men working on the SS farm were held at Budy. On 17 January 1945 there were three hundred and thirteen of them.
Administratively Budy formed one subcamp together with the women's camp and the penal company, under a single Lagerführer.
A single storey brick building of the former primary school survives, today Public Nursery School no. 2. During the war it housed the offices of the penal company.
The site lies in the commune of Brzeszcze, on road 933 from Oświęcim, beyond Rajsko.
This is one of the few places in the register that can be visited today; we show it in our educational programmes as the Bor / Budy women's subcamp with its exhibition. See the programmes →
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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