List of the Majdanek subcamps

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Most of the satellite camps of the Majdanek concentration camp were not assigned to it until 1944 for organizational purposes and were disbanded by the SS in the summer of that year as the eastern front approached .

By the end of 1943, all assembly camps (ghettos) in the Radom district of the General Government of Poland had been closed. The Jewish prisoners were murdered on site or in extermination camps, deported to concentration camps or deported to forced labor camps or to armaments industry camps controlled by the SS .

List of the Majdanek subcamps

Designation, location Activities, special features Peak founded as managed as an external warehouse Closure / evacuation
Bliżyn 40 km southwest of Radom Munitions factory, quarry, workshops for DAW and DEST until 4,000 Russian war war. Oct. 1941

ZAL from March 1943

February 1944 August 1944
Budzyń 5 km northwest of Krasnik Heinkel aircraft construction 2138 men

319 women

ZAL Sept. 1942 February 1944 July 22, 1944
Lublin -Lipowa Street Lipowastr. 7 (today No. 13) DAW workshops 1750 ZAL Dec. 1939 / dissolved

at the harvest festival

February 1944 (after new occupancy Jan. 1944) July 22, 1944
Radome Szkolna Street Steyr Daimler Puch arms factory 2900 ZAL 1942 January 17, 1944 July 26, 1944
Trawniki Forced Labor Camp

+ Secondary Dorohucza

35 km southeast of Lublin "Schultz & Co" Wehrmacht uniforms

Peat cutting

> 6000 ZAL 1941 September 16, 1943 Nov. 3, 1943 (harvest festival)
Labor camp / previously Warsaw concentration camp Warsaw ghetto area Demolition, recycling of building materials 5000 Concentration camp 1943 May 1, 1944 Late July 1944

Bliżyn

The forced labor camp Bliżyn, 40 km southwest of Radom , was run as a satellite camp of the Majdanek concentration camp from February 1944 until it was closed in early August 1944.

In Bliżyn predominantly Polish Jews from dissolved ghettos were captured, some of which had been brought in via the Majdanek main camp. The camp population ranged between 2,000 and 4,000 prisoners who were guarded by around 30 German and “ ethnic German ” men.

Workers were deployed in a nearby munitions factory or quarry. The forced labor camp also included tailoring, cobbler's shop, saddlery and woodworking workshops, all of which were initially operated by the SS- owned Ostindustrie GmbH (OSTI) and carried out orders from the Wehrmacht . As of February 1944, these plants were combined with those of the Radom forced labor camp as " German Equipment Works G. mb H. - Radom-Blizyn Plant"; the quarry was taken over by the Deutsche Erd- und Steinwerke GmbH (DEST). SS-Obersturmführer Friedrich Wilhelm Siegmann became camp leader of both satellite camps ; In Bliżyn, SS Oberscharführer Georg Heller was actually in charge.

When the camp was to be evacuated as the Red Army approached , all non-Jewish prisoners were released. The Jewish prisoners were transported to Auschwitz on August 1, 1944 .

Budzyń

The Budzyń forced labor camp near Kraśnik was set up at the end of 1942 for aircraft production by the Heinkel works , in which Polish civilian workers also worked. Because the armaments factory was classified as important to the war effort, the Jewish prisoners were spared the " Aktion Erntefest " extermination campaign . In February 1944, the camp with Jewish forced laborers was made subordinate to the Majdanek concentration camp. Joseph Leipold became camp leader ; he was sentenced to death in Lublin in 1948. In March 1944, 2,138 men and 319 women were registered in the Budzyń subcamp.

After the takeover, the forced laborers had to wear prison clothing. Living conditions improved, however, because they were able to move into a building previously used by Polish civil workers and the exhausting, three-thousand-meter-wide approach was no longer necessary. On July 22, 1944, the camp was closed.

Lublin-Lipowa Street

The camp on Lipowastrasse (Lindenstrasse) was set up as a forced labor camp for Jews in December 1939. Separately from this, Polish prisoners were temporarily housed in the camp. The forced laborers were used in their own workshops and various jobs in the city area. During the "harvest festival", the camp was cleared and all prisoners shot. Since the Lublin companies of the German Equipment Works (DAW) could no longer fulfill their orders due to a lack of manpower, the warehouse was put into use again in January 1944. To this end, 1,750 workers, including 250 skilled workers, were brought in from the DAW factories of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp , the Dachau concentration camp , the Buchenwald concentration camp and the Majdanek concentration camp. Like the camps in Bliżyn and Radom, the Lublin-Lipowa Street camp was assigned to the Majdanek concentration camp as a satellite camp in February 1944.

The war economy could not derive greater economic benefit from it. Because by the end of March 1944, preparations had to be made to evacuate the camp and hundreds of workers were withdrawn. On July 22, 1944, the camp was empty.

Radome

The camp on Szkolna Street in Radom was set up in 1942 for forced laborers who were deployed in shifts in an arms factory owned by Steyr-Daimler-Puch .

The Radom forced labor camp was run as a satellite camp of Majdanek from January 17, 1944 to July 26, 1944. SS-Obersturmführer Friedrich Wilhelm Siegmann, who also directed the subcamp Bliżyn, was appointed as camp leader. On July 22, 1944, 2,900 prisoners were counted. With the exception of a small remaining detachment that was used to dismantle the arms factory, the prisoners were evacuated by July 29th. Probably only 200 of them survived the three-day death march . In 1972, investigations led to a trial in Hamburg.

Trawniki

In autumn 1941 the SS set up the Trawniki forced labor camp about 35 km southeast of Lublin . Since February 1943, the company “Schultz & Co”, relocated from the Warsaw Ghetto , has been producing clothing for the Wehrmacht with 6,000 forced laborers . In a sub-camp, the SS labor camp Dorohucza , several hundred prisoners were working on peat extraction.

On September 14th, the camp was assigned to the Majdanek concentration camp as a satellite camp. In October 1943 the company Schultz & Co was taken over by the SS business enterprise "Ostindustrie GmbH" (OSTI). SS-Sturmbannführer Karl Streibel remained camp manager . However, the pursuit of economic profit was soon put on hold. As part of the “harvest festival” on November 3, 1943, all prisoners were driven to the nearby Trawniki SS training camp and shot there. The German workforce of the company left the place a little later and production was not resumed.

Warsaw

In June 1943 Heinrich Himmler ordered a “concentration camp” to be built on the site of the destroyed Warsaw ghetto. In November 1943, 4,000 male prisoners from Buchenwald and Auschwitz were busy tearing down ruins and recovering usable building materials in the Warsaw concentration camp . The camp was planned for 10,000 forced laborers. In fact, only a high of 5,000 was reached, among them 2,500 Hungarian Jews.

On May 1, 1944, this camp was subordinated to the Majdanek concentration camp as the “Warsaw labor camp”. There was an extensive change in personnel and an investigation into embezzlement of recovered valuables.

At the end of July 1944 the camp was evacuated. Almost 3,900 of the prisoners arrived at the Dachau concentration camp on August 6, 1944 .

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