And there was more...

This is why I had to start a blog in order to complete this project - the sheer numbers of subcamps in total is stupendous, and bear in mind that in addition to concentration camps, the Holocaust was carried out in all its grisly horror in hundreds of ghettoes and execution sites all over Europe and extending into Russia. The US Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopaedia of Camps and Ghettoes project, due to be completed in 2021, has amassed a list of over 1,100 sites, and more are being added as and when they are located and identified. Here though, the blog is merely concerned with the subcamps, which is horrifying enough in itself.#

Auschwitz sub-camps


Brzezinka (Birkenau i.e. Auschwitz II) will not be covered in the blog because Birkenau is usually considered to be part of the main Auschwitz complex (i.e. Auschwitz I and II) and as such has already been covered extensively across many books, TV programmes and on the internet. I may add a brief history of the main Auschwitz complex at some future point.


(Polish locations are in brackets, German camp names not in brackets): Harmeze, Birkenau (Brzezinka - Birkenau i.e. Auschwitz II), Babice, Rajsko, Plawy, Goleszow, Jawiszowice, Chelmek, Monowitz Buna-Werke (Monowice), Eintrachthütte (Swietochlowice), Neu-Dachs (Jaworzno), Fürstengrube (Wesola near Myslowice), Janinagrube aka Gute Hoffnung (Libiaz), Lagischa (Lagisza now Bedzin), Günthergrube (Ledziny), Gleiwitz I, II, III and IV (Gliwice), Laurahütte (Siemianowice Slaskie), Blechhammer (Sławięcice near Blachownia Śląska), Bobrek (Bobrek concentration camp near Oświęcim), Sosnowitz I & II (Sosnowiec), , Hindenburg (Zabrze), Trzebinia (Trzebinia), Tschechowitz Bombensucherkommando I and II(Czechowice-Dziedzice), Althammer (Stara Kuznia now Ruda Slaska), Bismarckhütte (Chorzow), Charlottengrube (Rydultowy), Neustadt (Prudnik), Hubertshütte (Lagiewniki now Bytom), Freudenthal (Bruntal), Lichtewerden (Svetla), Sosnitz (Sosnica near Gliwice), Porombka SS-Hütte (Międzybrodzie Bialskie), Altdorf (Stara Wieś near Pszczyna), Radostowitz (Radostowice near Pszczyna), Kobier Aussenkommando (Kobiór), Brünn (Brno), Sosnowiec, Kattowitz Sonderkommando (Katowice), Bauzug 2 SS (Karlsruhe, after Stuttgart - about 500 prisoners living in a train).

Mauthausen sub camps

Some of these may be duplicates as some subcamps passed between the administration of more than one major camp. Also, in Vienna, they may have different names (prefixed by 'Wien'):

Aflenz, Amstetten (mens and womens camps), Attnang-Puttheim, Bachmanning, Bretstein - KZ Nebenlager Bretstein, Dippoldsau, Ebelsberg, Ebensee, Eisenerz, Enns, Ennsdorf, Floridsdorf, Frankenburg am Hausbruck (Schlier Redl-Zipf), Graz, Grein, Grosraming, Gunnskirchen - Waldwerke and Sammelager, Gusen (I-III), Haidfeld, Schloss Hartheim, Hinterbruhl, Hirtenberg, Hollenstein, Jedlsee, Klagenfurt, Lambach, Schloss Lannach, Leibnitz, Lenzing, Schloss Lind, Lindau, Linz - Aufraugmungskommando and Linz I-III, Loibl Pass North and South, Melk, Mistelbach am der Zaya, Passau I-III, Peggau, Perg, Rheydt, Ried, Schonbrunn, Schwechat, Steyr, St Aegyd am Neuwalde, St Lambrecht, St Valentin, Ternberg, Vocklabruck I and II, Vocklamarkt (Schlied Redl-Zipf), Wagram, Wels I and II, Weyer, Wien (Vienna) - AFA Werke, Wien-Floridsdorf, Wien-Heidefeld, Wien-Hinterbruhl, Wien Jedlsee, Wien Maria Lanzendorf, Wien-Modling, Wien-Schonbrunn, Wien-Schwechatt, Wien-Weste (Sauerwerke), Wiener Neudorf, Wiener Neustadt. 

Buchenwald sub camps

Flossenburg sub camps

Neuengamme sub camps

Ravensbruck sub camps

Sachsenhausen sub camps

Gross Rosen sub camps

Hinzert sub camps

Herzogenbusch sub camps

Plaszow sub camps

Majdanek sub camps

Mittelbau sub camps

Natzweiler-Struthof sub camps

Natzweiler-Struthof sub camps

Stutthof-Struthof sub camps

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