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Gleiwitz II
Name of the camp - Arbeitslager Gleiwitz II
Commandant of the camp - SS-Oberscharführer Bernhard Becker, SS-Oberscharführer Konrad Friedrichsen, SS-Hauptscharführer Bernhard Rackers
Location - Gliwice
Period of camp existence – May 1944 – 18 January 1945
Work type - production of coal tar (women), repair and maintenance of machinery, factory expansion (men)
Number of prisoners – 740 male prisoners, 371 female prisoners (December 1944)
Employers - Deutsche Gasrusswerke GmbH, Deutsche Ausrüstungswerke (DAW), Borsig-Koks-Werke
Evacuation / Liquidation of the camp – on 18 January 1945 male prisoners were sent to KL Sachsenhausen, female prisoners were sent to KL Ravensbrück
Main gate to the camp Gleiwitz II.
SS barrack in Gleiwitz II.
Pill box on area of the factory with the entrance to the sub camp in the background (taken 27/9/06 image 1539)
Memorial to the sub camp in a park a few hundred meters from the factory and sub camp (taken 7/6/06 image 5654)
See also:
- Introduction
- Altdorf
- Althammer
- Babitz
- Birkenau (Wirtschaftshof Birkenau)
- Bismarckhütte
- Blechhammer
- Bobrek
- Brünn
- Budy - Male Camp
- Budy - Female Camp & Penal Camp
- Buna
- Charlottegrube
- Chelmek
- Eintrachthütte
- Freudenthal
- Fürstengrube
- Gleiwitz I
- Gleiwitz III
- Gleiwitz IV
- Golleschau
- Günthergube
- Harmense
- Hindenburg
- Hubertushütte
- Janinagrube
- Jawischowitz
- Kobior
- Lagischa
- Laurahütte
- Lichtewerden
- Neu-Dachs
- Neustadt
- Plawy
- Radostowitz
- Raisko
- Sonderkommando Kattowitz
- Sosnowitz I
- Sosnowitz II
- Sosnitz
- SS Hütte Porabka (Solahütte)
- 2 SS Bauzug
- Trzebinia
- Tschechowitz - Bombensuchenkommando
- Tschechowitz-Vacuum