Sosnowitz II

Name of the camp - Arbeitslager Sosnowitz
Other name for the camp - Konzentrationslager Sosnowitz
Commandant of the camp - SS-Hauptscharführer Albin Vaupel
Location - Sosnowiec
Period of camp existence – May 1944 – January 1945
Work type - labor in a steel mill, casting barrels for anti-aircraft cannon and producing shells
Number of prisoners – around 900
Employer - Berghütte-Ost-Maschinenbau GmbH
Evacuation / Liquidation of the camp – January 1945


Remnants of the sub camp recently demolished.

Ost-Maschinenbau factory where prisoners worked. View from sub camp.