Lagischa

In September 1943, a satellite camp was set up for Auschwitz outside Bedzin, north of Katowice. The purpose of the camp was to provide a German industrial company with slave labor to build a power plant in Lagischa. The prisoners were housed in a labor camp next to the power plant and consisted of several barracks. They were forced to build railway tracks, demolishing existing buildings, digging ditches, unloading building materials and material. The commander of the camp was SS-Unterscharführer Horst Czerwinski who, according to testimony, did not hesitate to arbitrarily kill prisoners. Czerwinski had about thirty non-commissioned officers to run the camp. In 1944, there were more than 700 prisoners in the camp. At the end of September, 1944, the construction of the power plant ceased and the camp was liquidated and the prisoners were transferred to other satellite camps or back to Auschwitz.