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Jawischowitz
Name of the camp - Arbeitslager Jawischowitz
Other names for the camp - Kommando Jawischowitz, Häftlingslager Jawischowitz, Aussenlager Jawischowitz, Grubenlager Jawischowitz, Jawischowitzlager
Commandant of the camp - SS-Unterscharführer Wilhelm Kowol, SS-Hauptscharführer Josef Remmele, SS-Unterscharführer Horst Buss
Location – Brzeszcze-Jawiszowice
Period of camp existence – 15 August 1942 – 18/19 January 1945
Work type - coal mining and surface construction work at the Brzeszcze-Jawischowitz mine
Number of prisoners – around 2500
Employers - Hermann Göring Werke, Deutsche Bergwerks- und Hütttenbau GmbH
Evacuation / Liquidation of the camp – 18/19 January 1945
Bathroom barrack being renovated in 2008. Now there is a small exhibition.
Power plant built by prisoners, never completed (taken 10/11/06 image 4988).
Memorial on the area of the former sub camp. (taken 8/6/06 image 4994)
Jawischowitz coal mine. (taken 6/6/06 image 5032)
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 II
- Gleiwitz III
- Gleiwitz IV
- Golleschau
- Günthergube
- Harmense
- Hindenburg
- Hubertushütte
- Janinagrube
- 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