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AUSCHWI'l (OS'k'rIECIM)
chlesien,
Po, lerly Poland)
Reported as special Kb with enclosures
for women.
30 Km. :In KATTOWITZ.
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Definitely XL:• mentioned frequently
since 1939. One report claims MAJDANEC
to be• part of DopPelliwer AUSCHWITZ.
BIREEMAU camp is definitely connected;
as AUSCHWITZ makes use of BIRKERAU's gas
chaMbers, though it is said to have 10
crematoria and 4 lethal gas chambers
itself.
OaPacity
In 1940: 40,000
A recent report claims 62,000 Jews and
foreign workers to be employed in the
synthetic rubber plant and other enterprises
around this town.
Inmates
One report gives the following figures
as an outline of the camp's history:
1939/40 - Over 5,000 inmates
July 1941 - 8,000 inmates, all Poles
Mortality rate 2q5 for each 6 month
period.
Late 1941 - 600 'Russians and 200 Poles
gassed.
September 1942 - More than 120,000
persons had passed through the camp.
Mortality has risen as over 80,000 are
said to have died or been shot.
May . 1943 - "At least 2 trains of 20 car
loads each arrived daily".
1944 - Another report states that 150,000
names were listed as having passed through
this camp.
Guards
—67-ds Sturmbann KG AUSCHWITZ has been
identified and may be a death's Head unit.
One member, upon enlistment into the
Waffen-SS served in this unit prior to
his despatch to the Eastern Front.
Remarks
Many typhus epidemics are said to have
raged here throughout its existence.
In the neighbourhood, reported to be
at IVORY, is an I.G. Farben plant for
synthetic rubber and "benzine", whose
workers also live in nearby camps;
slackers (those who take more than 2 days
off per month) are confined to an.Arbeitserziehungalager
(Workers' educational
camp) connected with the XL.
BUNA-WERKE (Synthetic Rubber Plant)
draws labour from the XL.
SS Units in the Vicinity
Hauptwirtschaftslager der Waffen SS.
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