subcamps-auschwitz.org - Sub Camps of Auschwitz | Re-Finding the Sub Camps of Auschwitz

Description: The Sub Camps of Auschwitz History in Photographs, Maps and Documents. Re-find the sub camps of the largest Nazi concentration and extermination camp.

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The project “Re-Finding the Sub Camps of Auschwitz” had been an ambition of Cameron Munro the chairman of Tiergartenstrasse4Association (now Tiergarten4Association e.V.) since the 1980s. The original aim of the project to re-find the sub camps of the largest Nazi concentration and extermination camp, Auschwitz, was not to produce histories of the individual sub camps but simply to satisfy our interest contained in the questions – what, 60 years after the liberation of Auschwitz and its sub camps, physically

The fieldwork for the project, undertaken between 2005 and 2008, literally involved re-finding the sites of the 45 former sub camps of Auschwitz and the factories, mines, steel works and other places where the prisoners laboured. At the time the Association undertook the fieldwork Google Maps did not exist in Poland. The locations of the sub camps were re-found from first principles through research in the archives of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum: from prisoner drawings, testimonies, photographs take

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