Camp System of I.G. Auschwitz
(civilian workers’ camp, work education camp, forced labor camp, concentration camp, prisoner of war camp)
Name |
Nationalities/Groups |
Location |
Time Period |
Supervision |
Camp I Leonhard Haag |
Germans, Flemings, and Italians |
Northeastern corner of the plant grounds near the outpatient clinic and the plant security force and office barracks, on a level with camp streets A and B. |
Under construction since May 1941 |
Camp Leader (Lagerführer) (as of August 1942) Baar von Baarenfels After that: Lang |
Camp II Judenfriedhof |
Camp II West: French, Ukrainians, Belgians, and Germans
Camp II East: Poles (from the bordering area of the Generalgouvernement), Ukrainians, and Germans |
North of the road between the town of Auschwitz and Camp I. |
Under construction since December 1941 |
German Labor Front (Deutsche Arbeitsfront; DAF) Camp Leader SS-Hauptsturmführer Fleischmann |
Camp III Teichgrund |
Polish prisoners belonging to Organisation Schmelt (until late 1943) Polish forced laborers Female East European workers, Russian women (as well as, presumably: Ukrainian, Polish, Slovak, and Croat women) and Italian women |
Plant streets K to M on a level with Block 2. Southwestern edge of the plant grounds. |
Planned capacity in March 1941: 3,000 |
Organisation Todt
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Camp IV Dorfrand Camp Buna Camp Monowitz Monowitz concentration camp (Konzentrationslager; KZ) and work education camp (Arbeitserziehungslager; AEL) |
KZ prisoners (as of October 28, 1942), as well as AEL prisoners (as of January 15, 1943) |
The KZ was on a level with Blocks 11 and 12, south of plant street J, which ran west to Auschwitz and east to Cracow. The AEL was at the northwestern edge inside the KZ Monowitz, north of the camp street; it consisted of 5 barracks, separated by fence from the rest of the camp. |
KZ: October 28, 1942, to January 18, 1945 AEL, as of: January 15, 1943
March 1941 planned capacity: 5,000
Daily occupancy of up to 11,000 KZ prisoners. |
SS Commandant SS-Hauptsturmführer Heinrich Schwarz Camp Leader Vinzenz Schöttl Roll-call Leader (Rapportführer) Bernhard Rakers |
Camp V Also included a so-called education camp |
“East European workers” (Ostarbeiter) Ukrainian men, women, and children Poles Forced laborers, special-duties column (zbV-Kolonne) Jewish prisoners from Organisation Schmelt[1] |
Southeast, outside the plant grounds. Between the village of Wlosienitz/ Wlosienieca (south) and the planned factory railway station (north). |
Capacity: 2,000 |
Camp Leader Theodor Pillich (NSDAP) |
Camp VI Pulverturm Main Camp VIIIb Camp E715 |
British prisoners of war Germans |
South of plant street J as far as plant street K on a level with Block 8. |
Jan./Feb. 1944 to Jan. 1945. |
Lamsdorf (Main Camp VIIIb) prisoner of war camp, Military District (Wehrkreis) VIII |
Camp VII Youth Camp (Jugend-Lager) |
German apprentices and commercial clerks, “armaments vacationers” (Rüstungsurlauber) |
Plant streets K to M, Block 1. West of Camp III. |
Planned since October 1941. |
Unknown |
Camp VIII |
German workers and Wehrmacht helpers British POWs (Sept. 1943 to Jan./Feb. 1944) |
Plant streets M to O on a level with Blocks 2 to 3. South of Camp VIII. |
Unknown |
Unknown |
Camp IX |
Unknown |
South of plant street O on a level with Block 3. East of Camp X. |
Unknown |
Unknown |
Camp X |
Unknown |
South of plant street O on a level with Block 4. West of Camp X. |
Unknown |
Unknown |
Employees’ Camp (Angestelltenlager) |
Around 1,400 German employees (as of September 1943) |
West of the plant grounds on a level with plant streets E–H. South of Camp I and north of youth housing camp. |
Unknown |
Unknown |
Youth Housing Camp (Jugendwohnlager)
|
Around 550 German apprentices (as of September 1943) |
South of the camp for employees. West of Camp VII (youth camp) at the southwestern end of the plant grounds. |
Unknown |
Unknown |
(FS; transl. KL)