"On Auschwitz" (18): sub-camps

The Auschwitz concentration camp had almost 50 sub‑camps. The
largest of them had extensive administrative structures, separate
hospital barracks, showers and even small crematoria. In the
smaller ones, prisoners were locked up for the night in rooms or
cellars—there were no fences or guard towers there and meals were
delivered from the main camp. The majority of prisoners were
employed in the armaments and extractive industries, or
agriculture. At the beginning of 1945, they held 35,000 men and
women prisoners, more than Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau
combined (31,000).


Dr. Piotr Setkiewicz, the head of the Memorial research center
talks about the history of Auschwitz sub-camps.

(in the picture: Trzebinia sub-camp)