Charlottegrube

Name of the camp – Arbeitslager Charlottegrube
Other names for the camp – Arbeitslager Charlottengrube, Arbeitskommando Charlottegrube, Kommando Charlottegrube Rydultau, Kommando Charlottengrube, Konzentrationslager Monowitz – Arbeitslager Charlottegrube Kreis Rybnik O/S, Zweiglager Rydultau
Commandant of the camp - SS-Oberscharführer Alfred Tschiersky, SS-Oberscharführer Hans Kirschner
Location - Rydultowy
Period of camp existence – September 1944 – 19 January 1945
Work type – coal mining and mine construction work at the Charlotte mine
Number of prisoners – around 1000
Employer - Hermann Göring Werke
Evacuation / Liquidation of the camp – camp was evacuated on 19 January 1945 to Wodzislaw Slaski, then prisoners were transferred to KL Mauthausen

Memorial to the sub camps in the town.

  Foundations of a prisoner barrack now used as a car park.