Jawischowitz subcamp

Jawischowitz subcamp, remains of a barracks (2006)

The Jawischowitz subcamp in today's Jawiszowice , Brzeszcze municipality , was a subcamp of the Auschwitz concentration camp . From August 15, 1942 to January 19, 1945, this satellite camp made its prisoners available to work in the Brzeszcze-Jawischowitz mine for coal production and for construction work above ground. The company was part of the Reichswerke Hermann Göring . The mine was formerly called, among other things, owner Andreasschächte .

The German journalist and interbrigadist Kurt Julius Goldstein was the only Jewish Kapo in the Jawischowitz camp from 1942 to 1945 .

Selections repeatedly led to the deportation of weakened prisoners to the main camp. This was part of the SS policy of annihilation through labor . Over 1,800 prisoners are said to have been murdered for this alone.

On January 17, 1945, 1,988 prisoners are said to have been held there.

literature

• Rosemarie Schuder , Rudolf Hirsch : No. 58 866: "Jewish King" - The Life of Kurt Julius Goldstein . Revised and additional new edition, foreword by Hans Coppi . Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86650-781-4 ; on Jawischowitz pp. 14 and 191 ff.
• Andrea Rudorff: Jawischowitz (Jawiszowice). In: Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (eds.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 5: Hinzert, Auschwitz, Neuengamme. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-52965-8 , pp. 262-265.
• Adrianna Harazim: Mining near Auschwitz. The use of concentration camp inmates in Upper Silesian mines . In: Hans Ch. Seidel, Klaus Tenfelde (eds.): Forced labor in the mine. The work in the coal mining of the German Reich and the occupied territory in the First and Second World War. Klartext, Wuppertal 2005, ISBN 3-89861-389-5 , pp. 411-432.
• Andrzej Strzelecki: Final phase of KL Auschwitz. Evacuation, liquidation and liberation of the camp. Auschwitz notebooks. Panstwowe Muzeum w Oswiecimiu (Auschwitz State Museum), Oswiecim 1995.
  • dsb .: The Jawischowitz sub-camp. Auschwitz notebooks, 15. Panstwowe Muzeum w Oswiecimiu, Oswiecim 1975.
• Wacław Długoborski , Franciszek Piper (eds.): Auschwitz 1941–1945. Studies on the history of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp. (Vol. 1 to 3) From the Polish by Jochen August . Verlag des Staatliches Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, Oswiecim 1999 (distribution in Germany: Metropol Verlag, Berlin; the original in Polish 1995) - review by Werner Renz, Fritz Bauer Institute .
• Rolf Weinstock : The real face of Hitler's Germany. Inmate No. 59000 tells of the fate of 10,000 Jews from Baden, the Palatinate and the Saar region in the hells of Dachau, Gurs - Drancy, Auschwitz, Jawischowitz, Buchenwald 1938–1945. Volksverlag Singen / Htw. 1948.
• Werner Müller : May 8, 1945: Hitler's benefiting helpers. The SS delivered forced laborers to German mining companies, whom they were allowed to and should exploit to the point of death. The Basic Law draws a lesson from this: "Property obliges". In: Die Zeit , No. 19/2005.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Directory of the concentration camps and their external commands in accordance with Section 42 (2) BEG , No. 665, Jawischowitz = Jawiszowice, Biala district near Cracow

Coordinates: 49 ° 57 ′ 32 ″  N , 19 ° 8 ′ 20 ″  E