Stalag VIIIB/344 Lamsdorf
WORKING PARTIES
contact: mail@lamsdorf.com
Also known as Work Camps or Arbeits Kommandos (Kdo)
or B.A.B. s. (Bau und Arbeits Battalion / construction battalion)
In The Clarion they are invariably referred to as Working Parties.
Many of the men held in Stalag VIIIB/344 were not in the main camp but in smaller work camps known as arbeits kommandos.
The "E" prefix stands for English, but POWs from many Commonwealth countries worked in these camps.
WORKING PARTIES
contact: mail@lamsdorf.com
Also known as Work Camps or Arbeits Kommandos (Kdo)
or B.A.B. s. (Bau und Arbeits Battalion / construction battalion)
In The Clarion they are invariably referred to as Working Parties.
Many of the men held in Stalag VIIIB/344 were not in the main camp but in smaller work camps known as arbeits kommandos.
The "E" prefix stands for English, but POWs from many Commonwealth countries worked in these camps.
In the second Issue of The Clarion, February 1943, the RC Chaplain Father John Berry says that "...there are about 600 Working Parties and ..... you will be able to guess why so many of you will have not yet had a visit". Only a fraction of these are listed here - the list will be updated as and when more information is discovered. If you can add to the list, please email on mail@lamsdorf.com. Sometimes the staff at the Polish Central Prisoner of War Museum at Lambinowice (Lamsdorf) can help with identifying the locations of various working parties. You can email them on lambinowice@cmjw.pl
No guarantee can be given about the accuracy of this list. The information has come from many different sources, both published and from memories, diaries, letters and other documents. Any more information will be gratefully received: mail@lamsdorf.com
A lot of information has been provided from this link - many thanks.
Salt Mines
Whatever some returning POWs might have claimed:
During the second world war the nearest salt mine to Krakow was the Wieliczka Mine (now a tourist attraction) which is 230 km east of Lamsdorf, just south of Krakow, and completely outside the area where the POW Working Parties operated. No POWs worked there although the Nazis did show some interest in the mine and sent some Jews to work in an underground armament factory set up there. However, manufacturing never began as the Soviet offensive was nearing. Some of the machines and equipment was disassembled, including an electrical hoisting machine from the Regis Shaft, and transported to Liebenau in the Sudetes mountains. Part of the equipment was returned after the war, in autumn 1945. The Jews were transported to factories in the Czech Republic and Austria.
There had been another salt mine at Bochnia, 260 km east of Lamsdorf, but this closed after the first world war.
The only other salt mine was at Klodawa, 265 km north of Lamsdorf, but this did not open until 1949.
This information has been confirmed by a Polish mining expert and by the Polish Central Prisoner-of-War Museum at Łambinowice (Lamsdorf) on the site of the former Stalag VIIIB/344.
Scroll down to the bottom of the page for: 2. OTHER LISTS 3. NAME CHANGES
1. Working Parties/Arbeits Kommandos:
The name in brackets shows the present-day name of the place, if known [eg Oppeln (Opole)].
Sometimes more than one location for a working party has been suggested, and in this case both are shown
[eg Gogolin / Tiefbau].
The information about locations, nature of work and accommodation and numbers of POWs involved, has been obtained from the various lists shown on this page, and sometimes from personal accounts written by POWs. It is possible that although that information might have been correct at the time it was originally written down, it might not have been the same throughout the existence of the Working Parties concerned.
No guarantee can be given about the accuracy of this list. The information has come from many different sources, both published and from memories, diaries, letters and other documents. Any more information will be gratefully received: mail@lamsdorf.com
A lot of information has been provided from this link - many thanks.
Salt Mines
Whatever some returning POWs might have claimed:
- There were no POW Working Parties in salt mines.
- No POWs worked in salt mines.
- There were no salt mines anyway!
During the second world war the nearest salt mine to Krakow was the Wieliczka Mine (now a tourist attraction) which is 230 km east of Lamsdorf, just south of Krakow, and completely outside the area where the POW Working Parties operated. No POWs worked there although the Nazis did show some interest in the mine and sent some Jews to work in an underground armament factory set up there. However, manufacturing never began as the Soviet offensive was nearing. Some of the machines and equipment was disassembled, including an electrical hoisting machine from the Regis Shaft, and transported to Liebenau in the Sudetes mountains. Part of the equipment was returned after the war, in autumn 1945. The Jews were transported to factories in the Czech Republic and Austria.
There had been another salt mine at Bochnia, 260 km east of Lamsdorf, but this closed after the first world war.
The only other salt mine was at Klodawa, 265 km north of Lamsdorf, but this did not open until 1949.
This information has been confirmed by a Polish mining expert and by the Polish Central Prisoner-of-War Museum at Łambinowice (Lamsdorf) on the site of the former Stalag VIIIB/344.
Scroll down to the bottom of the page for: 2. OTHER LISTS 3. NAME CHANGES
1. Working Parties/Arbeits Kommandos:
The name in brackets shows the present-day name of the place, if known [eg Oppeln (Opole)].
Sometimes more than one location for a working party has been suggested, and in this case both are shown
[eg Gogolin / Tiefbau].
The information about locations, nature of work and accommodation and numbers of POWs involved, has been obtained from the various lists shown on this page, and sometimes from personal accounts written by POWs. It is possible that although that information might have been correct at the time it was originally written down, it might not have been the same throughout the existence of the Working Parties concerned.
Working Parties with unknown numbers
Agneshütte /Agnieszka - probable coal mine (in Katowice) information
Bömischdorf (Česká Ves) POWs employed by an iron mining and metallurgical company.
Eichberg / Dąbrowa Bolesławiecka
Gabersdorf (Libeč) Sudentenland - flax factory (see this link)
Gross Dungen - sugar beet factory
Gross Krosse (Velká Kraš) POWs employed by the Didier company (possibly ceramics).
Gross Krosse (Velká Kraš) POWs on agricultural and forestry work. Accommodation in a local pub. The squad consisted of 60 prisoners. Four prisoners apparently shot whilst escaping - buried at the Catholic cemetery in Vidnava.
Krautenwalde (Travná) Forestry work. POWs accommodated at a place called Bei Buche near the village. 45 POWs.
Krebsgrundtal (Račí Údolí) POWs working in the Archbishop Forest.
Ober Gostitz (Horní Hoštice) Forestry work.
Schalkendorf in the Kreis (Area of) Opole.
Stauverder
Weigelsdorf (Vikantice) 120 POWs employed in the Jindrichovskych tar paper mills.
Working Parties with unknown numbers in the Jeseník district:
Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)
(source: click here)
Česká Ves
53 POWs working in an iron mine and metallurgical company. In 1943 the British were sent to other camps and replaced by Russian POWs.
Horní Hoštice
27 POWs were housed in the ‘Na Střelnici’ hunting lodge (Hundorf) and worked for the German Forest Administration.
Jeseník district
POWs employed by the Didier company.
Račí Údolí
POWs employed in the so-called ‘Archbishop’s Forest’.
Travná
45 POWs employed in forestry work.
Velká Kraš
60 POWs doing agricultural and forestry work. They were staying at the local inn. 4 escaping POWs were shot on the run: Frederic Ratcliffe, Frederick John Collings, Georg Wight Harper and Joseph Humphries. The dead were buried at the Roman Catholic cemetery in Vidnava. After the war their remains exhumed and moved to Prague to the Olšanské cemetery.
Vikantice
120 POWs employed in the Lepenkárně Jindřichovských paper mills.
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Here is a list of Working Parties in the Blechhammer district compiled by Edward Haduch, to whom many thanks.
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BAB 20 Blechhammer / Kedzierzyn-Kozle (late renamed E794)
Building the IG Farben factory at Heydebreck. Originally set up in Thorn (Torun) in September 1940, moved to Heydebreck in March 1942, consisted of about 600 POWs. Amalgamated with BAB 40 in March 1943 as BAB 20 (1200 POWs), In December 1944 the designation was changed to E794 - see these links: BAB 20 link BAB 20 link 2 also: notes and information
BAB 21 Blechhammer / Kedzierzyn-Kozle (later renamed E793)
Building the OHW factory at Blechhammer - originally set up in Posen (Poznan) in 1940. Moved to Blechhammer in March 1942, consisted of about 600 POWs, amalgamated with BAB 48 in March 1943 as BAB 21 (1200 POWs), In December 1944 the designation was changed to E793. The OHW (Upper Silesian Hydrogenation Works) was intended to produce fuel from coal for the German armed forces.
BAB 40 Heydebreck / Kedzierzyn-Kozle (later renamed E794)
Building the IG Farben chemical factory at Heydebreck - originally set up in Thorn (Torun) in September 1940, moved to Heydebreck in March 1942, consisted of about 600 POWs, amalgamated with BAB 20 in March 1943 as BAB 20 (1200 POWs). In December 1944 the designation was changed to E794.
BAB 48 Blechhammer (later renamed E793)
Building the OHW factory at Blechhammer - originally set up in Posen (Poznan) in 1940. Moved to Blechhammer in March 1942, consisted of about 600 POWs, amalgamated with BAB 21 in March 1943 as BAB 21 (1200 POWs), In December 1944 the designation was changed to E793. The OHW (Upper Silesian Hydrogenation Works) was intended to produce fuel from coal for the German armed forces.
BAB 108 (probably the same as E67)
Various locations including Niklasdorf (Mikulovice u Jeseníku) and the Kreuzburg, Katy Wroclawskie and Neuhammer localities. This seems to have been a working party for Soviet POWs, but originally, in 1940, for British POWs. Apparently the British were replaced for being 'unsuitable'. The accommodation was at one time located in the MUNA munitions factory and consisted of 6 wooden barracks. The 600 POWs were used in building MUNA munitions factories (from the German Munitionsanstalt) roads and infrastructure. Working conditions were desperate. The prisoners were very hungry, which led to a proliferation of thefts of food. There was a great lack of water for washing etc as well as drinking water. The POWs were working twelve hours a day. Occasionally they were also put to work clearing snow on the railways and roads. There was a very limited supply of Red Cross food parcels, new uniforms and work clothes. The British element of the Working Party was apparently disbanded in 1941. Some of the POWs were subsequently transferred to a working party in the town of Zwittau (Svitavy). Guards: 4 Company, Battalion 438.
E1 Laband/Łabędy (a district of Gliwice) - various labouring jobs, including road construction work, sugar beet harvesting and work on construction the Adolf Hitler Canal, now known as the Gliwice Canal, connecting the Oder River to the city of Gliwice/Gliwitz.
E2 Cosel / Kozle - loading timber on to railway waggons, smashing concrete tank traps with hammers as a punishment in a 'penal squad' - set up in June 1940, 200 POWs.
E3 Blechammer
Building the OHW factory at Blechhammer - set up in June 1940, 760-800 POWs. The OHW (Upper Silesian Hydrogenation Works) was intended to produce fuel from coal for the German armed forces.
See these links:
E6 Ehrenforst / Sławięcice
Building the OHW factory at Blechhammer - no information on this Working Party available, it is mentioned in a book by Polish historians about POW camps in Wehrkreis VIII (the German Military District VIII). The OHW (Upper Silesian Hydrogenation Works) was intended to produce fuel from coal for the German armed forces.
E8 Krappitz - paper mill
E16 Blechhammer area - no information on this Working Party, it was mentioned in ICRC (Red Cross) documents among other camps n the area.
E17 Opole - cement factory photos
E21 Petershofen (Petrkovice) - coal Mine link 1 link 2
E22 Gleiwitz-Ohringen (Gliwice Sosnica)
Could have been working in the Oehringen Bergbau A.G. Schachtanlage Sosnitza coal mine, or on the railway, or both (the huts where the POWs were house were between the railway tracks). Gleiwitz-Ohringen is a railway junction, today known as Gliwice Sosnica.
See this link: notes
E25 Rauschwalde, Kreis Falkenberg
E26 Stiebendorf
E27 coal mine also: notes
E30 Oppeln (Opole)
E31Pechhütte / Schelitz / Wiesengrund
E34 Groschowitz (Groszowice) - Building work
E42. Rothfest (Rudawa) - Paper Mill also: notes
E51 Klausberg - coal mine also: notes
E55 Wunschgrube
E56 Ottmütz (Ottmuth) Airfield. also: more information and: Reginald L. Borrett
E58 Glatz
E59 Glatz
E60 Glatz
E61 Glatz
E62 Gleiwitz-Steigern
E67 Freiwaldau (Mikulovice u Jeseníku) - the Muna Niklasdorf munitions factory. Probably was originally called BAB 108 (see above)
E69 Glatz
E70 ? - sugar Beet Factory
E71 Neurode
E72 Beuthen (Bytom) Hohenzollern coalmine. POWs accommodated at Schomberg (Szombierki)
See these links:
E74 Althaus
E75 E75A Knurow - coal mine
See these references:
E83 Morgenroth
E86 see this link: book extract
E88 Hohrnlohehutte / Königshütte
E90 Erlenbusch also: notes
E91 Mittelbrüc
E93 Sakrau - limestone quarry - See Ted Lees' account Here (chapter 8)
E94 Emilienhoff - limestone quarry (Ottmuthweich?)
E95 Glassdörfl (Sklené) / Hannsdorf (Hanušovice)
E96 Krappitz (Krapkowice) - cardboard factory. 25 men in the working party. See this 1939 link (might be a different factory) and this link about an escape
E100 Tarnau
Agneshütte /Agnieszka - probable coal mine (in Katowice) information
Bömischdorf (Česká Ves) POWs employed by an iron mining and metallurgical company.
Eichberg / Dąbrowa Bolesławiecka
Gabersdorf (Libeč) Sudentenland - flax factory (see this link)
Gross Dungen - sugar beet factory
Gross Krosse (Velká Kraš) POWs employed by the Didier company (possibly ceramics).
Gross Krosse (Velká Kraš) POWs on agricultural and forestry work. Accommodation in a local pub. The squad consisted of 60 prisoners. Four prisoners apparently shot whilst escaping - buried at the Catholic cemetery in Vidnava.
Krautenwalde (Travná) Forestry work. POWs accommodated at a place called Bei Buche near the village. 45 POWs.
Krebsgrundtal (Račí Údolí) POWs working in the Archbishop Forest.
Ober Gostitz (Horní Hoštice) Forestry work.
Schalkendorf in the Kreis (Area of) Opole.
Stauverder
Weigelsdorf (Vikantice) 120 POWs employed in the Jindrichovskych tar paper mills.
Working Parties with unknown numbers in the Jeseník district:
Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)
(source: click here)
Česká Ves
53 POWs working in an iron mine and metallurgical company. In 1943 the British were sent to other camps and replaced by Russian POWs.
Horní Hoštice
27 POWs were housed in the ‘Na Střelnici’ hunting lodge (Hundorf) and worked for the German Forest Administration.
Jeseník district
POWs employed by the Didier company.
Račí Údolí
POWs employed in the so-called ‘Archbishop’s Forest’.
Travná
45 POWs employed in forestry work.
Velká Kraš
60 POWs doing agricultural and forestry work. They were staying at the local inn. 4 escaping POWs were shot on the run: Frederic Ratcliffe, Frederick John Collings, Georg Wight Harper and Joseph Humphries. The dead were buried at the Roman Catholic cemetery in Vidnava. After the war their remains exhumed and moved to Prague to the Olšanské cemetery.
Vikantice
120 POWs employed in the Lepenkárně Jindřichovských paper mills.
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Here is a list of Working Parties in the Blechhammer district compiled by Edward Haduch, to whom many thanks.
____________________________________________________________________________
BAB 20 Blechhammer / Kedzierzyn-Kozle (late renamed E794)
Building the IG Farben factory at Heydebreck. Originally set up in Thorn (Torun) in September 1940, moved to Heydebreck in March 1942, consisted of about 600 POWs. Amalgamated with BAB 40 in March 1943 as BAB 20 (1200 POWs), In December 1944 the designation was changed to E794 - see these links: BAB 20 link BAB 20 link 2 also: notes and information
- A list of the POWs at this Working Party, compiled by Keith Newman.
BAB 21 Blechhammer / Kedzierzyn-Kozle (later renamed E793)
Building the OHW factory at Blechhammer - originally set up in Posen (Poznan) in 1940. Moved to Blechhammer in March 1942, consisted of about 600 POWs, amalgamated with BAB 48 in March 1943 as BAB 21 (1200 POWs), In December 1944 the designation was changed to E793. The OHW (Upper Silesian Hydrogenation Works) was intended to produce fuel from coal for the German armed forces.
- A list of the POWs at this Working Party, compiled by Keith Newman.
- BAB 21 link
- Bab 21 link 2
- Keith Newman's BAB 21 Blog
- notes
- information
- Video of Harold Pitt, who was a POW at BAB 21, talking about his experiences.
BAB 40 Heydebreck / Kedzierzyn-Kozle (later renamed E794)
Building the IG Farben chemical factory at Heydebreck - originally set up in Thorn (Torun) in September 1940, moved to Heydebreck in March 1942, consisted of about 600 POWs, amalgamated with BAB 20 in March 1943 as BAB 20 (1200 POWs). In December 1944 the designation was changed to E794.
BAB 48 Blechhammer (later renamed E793)
Building the OHW factory at Blechhammer - originally set up in Posen (Poznan) in 1940. Moved to Blechhammer in March 1942, consisted of about 600 POWs, amalgamated with BAB 21 in March 1943 as BAB 21 (1200 POWs), In December 1944 the designation was changed to E793. The OHW (Upper Silesian Hydrogenation Works) was intended to produce fuel from coal for the German armed forces.
BAB 108 (probably the same as E67)
Various locations including Niklasdorf (Mikulovice u Jeseníku) and the Kreuzburg, Katy Wroclawskie and Neuhammer localities. This seems to have been a working party for Soviet POWs, but originally, in 1940, for British POWs. Apparently the British were replaced for being 'unsuitable'. The accommodation was at one time located in the MUNA munitions factory and consisted of 6 wooden barracks. The 600 POWs were used in building MUNA munitions factories (from the German Munitionsanstalt) roads and infrastructure. Working conditions were desperate. The prisoners were very hungry, which led to a proliferation of thefts of food. There was a great lack of water for washing etc as well as drinking water. The POWs were working twelve hours a day. Occasionally they were also put to work clearing snow on the railways and roads. There was a very limited supply of Red Cross food parcels, new uniforms and work clothes. The British element of the Working Party was apparently disbanded in 1941. Some of the POWs were subsequently transferred to a working party in the town of Zwittau (Svitavy). Guards: 4 Company, Battalion 438.
E1 Laband/Łabędy (a district of Gliwice) - various labouring jobs, including road construction work, sugar beet harvesting and work on construction the Adolf Hitler Canal, now known as the Gliwice Canal, connecting the Oder River to the city of Gliwice/Gliwitz.
E2 Cosel / Kozle - loading timber on to railway waggons, smashing concrete tank traps with hammers as a punishment in a 'penal squad' - set up in June 1940, 200 POWs.
E3 Blechammer
Building the OHW factory at Blechhammer - set up in June 1940, 760-800 POWs. The OHW (Upper Silesian Hydrogenation Works) was intended to produce fuel from coal for the German armed forces.
See these links:
E6 Ehrenforst / Sławięcice
Building the OHW factory at Blechhammer - no information on this Working Party available, it is mentioned in a book by Polish historians about POW camps in Wehrkreis VIII (the German Military District VIII). The OHW (Upper Silesian Hydrogenation Works) was intended to produce fuel from coal for the German armed forces.
E8 Krappitz - paper mill
E16 Blechhammer area - no information on this Working Party, it was mentioned in ICRC (Red Cross) documents among other camps n the area.
E17 Opole - cement factory photos
E21 Petershofen (Petrkovice) - coal Mine link 1 link 2
E22 Gleiwitz-Ohringen (Gliwice Sosnica)
Could have been working in the Oehringen Bergbau A.G. Schachtanlage Sosnitza coal mine, or on the railway, or both (the huts where the POWs were house were between the railway tracks). Gleiwitz-Ohringen is a railway junction, today known as Gliwice Sosnica.
See this link: notes
E25 Rauschwalde, Kreis Falkenberg
E26 Stiebendorf
E27 coal mine also: notes
E30 Oppeln (Opole)
E31Pechhütte / Schelitz / Wiesengrund
E34 Groschowitz (Groszowice) - Building work
E42. Rothfest (Rudawa) - Paper Mill also: notes
E51 Klausberg - coal mine also: notes
E55 Wunschgrube
E56 Ottmütz (Ottmuth) Airfield. also: more information and: Reginald L. Borrett
E58 Glatz
E59 Glatz
E60 Glatz
E61 Glatz
E62 Gleiwitz-Steigern
E67 Freiwaldau (Mikulovice u Jeseníku) - the Muna Niklasdorf munitions factory. Probably was originally called BAB 108 (see above)
E69 Glatz
E70 ? - sugar Beet Factory
E71 Neurode
E72 Beuthen (Bytom) Hohenzollern coalmine. POWs accommodated at Schomberg (Szombierki)
See these links:
E74 Althaus
E75 E75A Knurow - coal mine
See these references:
E83 Morgenroth
E86 see this link: book extract
E88 Hohrnlohehutte / Königshütte
E90 Erlenbusch also: notes
E91 Mittelbrüc
E93 Sakrau - limestone quarry - See Ted Lees' account Here (chapter 8)
E94 Emilienhoff - limestone quarry (Ottmuthweich?)
E95 Glassdörfl (Sklené) / Hannsdorf (Hanušovice)
- See this document: E95
- and: group photo front / back (signatures)
- and: E95 map
- (Possible working at or billeted in a textile mill see: photo)
E96 Krappitz (Krapkowice) - cardboard factory. 25 men in the working party. See this 1939 link (might be a different factory) and this link about an escape
E100 Tarnau
E106 Frankenberg
E109 Ehrenfeld (Goslawice) / Niesnersberg? (Nýznerov) - forestry work. [Accommodated in a forest camp. The working part comprised 70 prisoners. Later they were replaced by Russian prisoners.] also: notes
E110 Stauwerder
E111 Sank Annaberg - stone quarry
E113
E114 Gross Kunzendorf (Velké Kunětice) - stone quarry and factory. Prisoners housed inside the factory building in the village. Working party consisted of 12 prisoners. Link
E115 Burgwasser (Dobra) See this link: E115
E116 Bielau (or Bilov) (Bělá ve Slezsku, Czech Republic)
E117 Oppeln (Opole)
E118 Oppeln (Opole)
E119 Mankendorf - saw Mill Link
E120 Schlippengrund (Tomíkovice) Franke und Bruder granite quarry. Guards: 4 Company, Battalion 438.) See this list: list
E123 Glaubenstadt
E125 Breslau-Dürrgoy
E126 Oppeln (Opole) / Halbendorf
E129 Setzdorf (Vápenná) Zoth Quarry - 15 POWs. See this list: list
E130 Heuerstein (Strzelce Opolskie) - quarry
E131 Gogolin / Tiefbau Pollok - stone quarry
E132 Gogolin
E133 Rogau
E137 Ratiborhammer
E138 Ratibor - steel works
E140 also: notes
E149 Buchenlust (Rachowice) - forestry work - Mentioned on this link Saunders
E150 Oderfest
E151 Concordia
E152 Waldenstein - Lime quarry and kiln - See this link Morris
E153 Cosel / Kosle
E154 - Coal Mine? Mentioned HERE with a group photo and some names
E155 Cosel-Oderhafen / Kozle Port - Siemans paper factory - 100 + POWs - See this link: E155
E156 Erbersdorf
E158 Patschkau
E159 Domstadtl - quarry
E161 - farm
E162 Oderthal
E164 Patschkau
E165 Oppeln
E166 Saubsdorf (Supíkovice) - quarry. 200 POWs employed at the quarry.) Features in the book Do The Birds Still Sing In Hell? by British POW Horace Greasley, who became famous for claiming that he escaped from E166 over 200 times in the conduct of a clandestine love affair with a local German woman, Rosa Rauchbach, who was an interpreter at the camp, returning into captivity each time. Guard 4 Compass of the L-Batalion 438. Also: Horrie Woods book
E167 Friedeberg (Žulová) / Haspelberg Albert Förster - quarry. [Accommodation in a former office at the quarry. Working party consisted of 20 to 25 prisoners. At the end of March 1945, 20 prisoners were evacuated to Bavaria.] See this list: list
E168 Gurschdorf (Skorošice) - Albert Förster Quarry. 5 British POWs - amongst possibly 400 POWs of various nationalities. The British were accommodated in building no. 196, together with French POWs.
E171 Setzdorf (Vápenná) - Neugebauer Limestone Quarry [Accommodated in the property of the company. Working party consisted of 29 prisoners.]
E172 Setzdorf (Vápenná) - Alojs Rösner Limestone Quarry. 1 death - John McCormack (source: this document)
E173 Setzdorf (Vápenná) - Anton Latzel lime quarry and kiln. 60 POWs in the working party. 1 death - Nelson David Ogg, 15th March, 1943 (source: this document). See this list: list
E174 Sandhübel (Písečná) - Becke Franke und Brüder brickworks. Up to 30 in the working party, accommodated in a single room in the brickworks.
E175 Sandhübel (Písečná) POWs employed in the local paper mill, housed in wooden barracks 200m from the factory. 30 prisoners in Working Party. See this list: list
E180 Ohlau
E181 Laugwitz / Sauerwitz
E182 Schöngarten
E183 Bernstadt
E184 Ohlau am Schloßteich
E187 Gandau
E188 Sternberg
E190 Geroldsdorf
E191 Stöblau
E192 Oels
E195 Roding
E196 Opoleonoora - cement factory (Opole)
E198 Schlegel and mentioned HERE with a group photo
E199 Waldenburg / Wałbrzych - glassworks photo
E200 Weisswasser (Bílá Voda) Schleife Forestry work.
E201 Dirschel
E203 Opole - cement works
E207 Ehrenforst /Sławięcice - Jewish/Palestinian POWs in the British Army - building the OHW factory at Blechhammer and housing for the workers there - Set up in December 1941, still existed in spring 1943. The OHW (Upper Silesian Hydrogenation Works) was intended to produce fuel from coal for the German armed forces. (see this link)
E209 Bobrek - coal mine also: notes
E211 Treibiz - railway
E214 Schubertkrosse
E218 Flossingen Forestry work
E224 Jogsdorf (Jakubčovice nad Odrou) Stone quarry, 30 men. See these letters
E225 Quarry - See these letters
E227 Hartha
E231 Kerzdorf, Krs.Lowenberg
E232 Rabishau (Rębiszów) Stone quarry. See also these links: Rabishau 2 Rabishau 3 Rabishau 4 (see page 16)
E233 Wiese
E235 Ebersdorf
E234 Tonhain (previously Tschirne, now Czerna) Clay/Ceramic/Earthenware works E234 information
E242 Oppeln (Opole)
E243 Breslau (gasworks) and mentioned HERE with some group photos and names
E246 Königshütte
E247 Leobschütz
E249 Kriegsdorf see this link: E249 link
E250 Adelsdorf (Adolfovice) Production of wood wool in the Weihöniga Max Ledler timber works. 192 POWs were housed in a wooden barrack not far from the road to the Jeseníky Mountains. Each prisoner had his own bed. There was a bathroom, toilet and a hall for occasional theatre productions etc. Guards: 4 Company, Battalion 438. See this list: list also: notes
E253 Zuckerfab /Neukirch-Cosel district. Mentioned here
E254 Geppersdorf
E255 Hartenau
E256 Zuckmantel (Zlaté Hory)
E260 Gross Stanisch-Gross Zeidel (Staniszcze Wielkie) / Vosswalde, Cardboard Factory
E265 Grafenweiler ( Gmina Kolonowski)
E268 Moschendorf
E272 Falkenberg, Sawmill
E273 Niklasdorf (Mikulovice u Jeseníku) Prisoners housed near Mikulovice railway station. C. Liemert Fezfabrik marble processing plant. There were between 14 and 66 prisoners in the working party. British POWs from other working parties shared the same accommodation. Guards: 4 Company, Battalion 438.) See these lists: E273 list list 2
E274 Patschkau
E275 Stein? or Barzdorf (Bernartice u Javorníka) Barzdorf. Prisoners employed at the Alois Mettner joinery works where they were also staying.
E276 Ottmachau (Otmuchów) sugar beet factory also: notes
E282 Ottmachau
E283 Ratibor (sugar mill) photos (and a possible mention in this link)
E287 Neukirch
E288 Bauerwitz / Baborów, sugar beet factory
E291 Stephansdorf
E294 ? Sugar Beet factory
E297 Starenheim
E203 Opole - cement works
E207 Ehrenforst /Sławięcice - Jewish/Palestinian POWs in the British Army - building the OHW factory at Blechhammer and housing for the workers there - Set up in December 1941, still existed in spring 1943. The OHW (Upper Silesian Hydrogenation Works) was intended to produce fuel from coal for the German armed forces. (see this link)
E209 Bobrek - coal mine also: notes
E211 Treibiz - railway
E214 Schubertkrosse
E218 Flossingen Forestry work
E224 Jogsdorf (Jakubčovice nad Odrou) Stone quarry, 30 men. See these letters
E225 Quarry - See these letters
E227 Hartha
E231 Kerzdorf, Krs.Lowenberg
E232 Rabishau (Rębiszów) Stone quarry. See also these links: Rabishau 2 Rabishau 3 Rabishau 4 (see page 16)
E233 Wiese
E235 Ebersdorf
E234 Tonhain (previously Tschirne, now Czerna) Clay/Ceramic/Earthenware works E234 information
E242 Oppeln (Opole)
E243 Breslau (gasworks) and mentioned HERE with some group photos and names
E246 Königshütte
E247 Leobschütz
E249 Kriegsdorf see this link: E249 link
E250 Adelsdorf (Adolfovice) Production of wood wool in the Weihöniga Max Ledler timber works. 192 POWs were housed in a wooden barrack not far from the road to the Jeseníky Mountains. Each prisoner had his own bed. There was a bathroom, toilet and a hall for occasional theatre productions etc. Guards: 4 Company, Battalion 438. See this list: list also: notes
E253 Zuckerfab /Neukirch-Cosel district. Mentioned here
E254 Geppersdorf
E255 Hartenau
E256 Zuckmantel (Zlaté Hory)
E260 Gross Stanisch-Gross Zeidel (Staniszcze Wielkie) / Vosswalde, Cardboard Factory
E265 Grafenweiler ( Gmina Kolonowski)
E268 Moschendorf
E272 Falkenberg, Sawmill
E273 Niklasdorf (Mikulovice u Jeseníku) Prisoners housed near Mikulovice railway station. C. Liemert Fezfabrik marble processing plant. There were between 14 and 66 prisoners in the working party. British POWs from other working parties shared the same accommodation. Guards: 4 Company, Battalion 438.) See these lists: E273 list list 2
E274 Patschkau
E275 Stein? or Barzdorf (Bernartice u Javorníka) Barzdorf. Prisoners employed at the Alois Mettner joinery works where they were also staying.
E276 Ottmachau (Otmuchów) sugar beet factory also: notes
E282 Ottmachau
E283 Ratibor (sugar mill) photos (and a possible mention in this link)
E287 Neukirch
E288 Bauerwitz / Baborów, sugar beet factory
E291 Stephansdorf
E294 ? Sugar Beet factory
E297 Starenheim
E302 (mentioned briefly in this document: Henderson)
E303 Petersweiler (Pietrzykowice) / sugar factory photo (and mentioned in this document: Blackmore)
E312 Stramberk - Quarry Link: Horrie Woods book
E316 Mocker
E317 Nimmsdorf
E320 Rosenborn
E321 Glatz
E323 Waldsiedel
E324 Gross Dubrnsko or Dubensko?
E330 Thule - mentioned here
E331 Mittelbrück
E332 Rudgershagen
E333 Ober Lindenwiese (Horní Lipová) Vohwinkel company (probably a timber or stonemasonry works). Prisoners accommodated in abandoned stone masons works - 10 in the working party. Guards: 4 Company, Battalion 438.
E334 Adelsdorf (Adolfovice) Prisoners employed in the Max Weihönig Leglera timber factory. Housed in wooden barracks not far from the road to Jesenik. Each prisoner had his bed. The camp had a bathroom, shower room and hall for occasional theatre. Working party consisted of 166 POWs. As noted on 8th August 1942, they were housed at building no. 31 at the works.
E335 Bohmischdorf
E336 Albert Förster Quarry, Niklasdorf. 12 POWs who were accommodated near the station along with the British POWs from other working parties. Guards: 4 Company, Battalion 438. List of names and also this list: list
E337 Krokersdorf (Krakořice) Czechoslovakia (in the district of Sternberg (Šternberk) see this link (brief mention): http://www.ssceramic.co.uk/ebook.pdf and go to page 391
E338 Freudenthal? Iron mine. Also Sternberg.See this link E337 link
E339 Freudenthal, railway. See these links: E339 link link 2
E341 Buchenhöh
E342 Albrechtsdorf
E345 Ratiborhammer
E346 Lenschütz - farm
E348 Neisse
E349 photo
E352 Freudenthal (Bruntál) Emmerich Machold linen factory. also: notes
E354 Jagerndorf (Javorník) saw mill & timer goods factory. 73 POWs were employed in the so-called ‘Archbishop’s Wood’, loading logs. Guards: 4 Company, Battalion 438. also: notes
E355 Ziegenhals also: notes
E357 Niklasdorf (Jeseníku/Buchsdorf/Buchsberg (Buková) POWs employed in agriculture. See this link: link
also: documents re. escapes: 1 2
More information 1 More information 2
E361 Sternberg Timber Works link link 2
E363 Ratiborhammer (Kuźnia Raciborska) The main industry in this town was the Schondorff-Hegenscheidt factory making aircraft parts. See photo gallery of E363 personnel here.
E364 Buchelsdorf (Bukovice u Jeseníka) 9 POWs were employed at the Bartsch sawmill and housed on the company’s property. Guards: 4 Company, Battalion 438)
E365 Gross Strelitz lime quarry
E367 Jagerndorf
E371 Ziegenhals
E372 Waldenstein
E373 Blaschke (Vlaské) Czechoslovakia, sawmill and see this document: E373 and: E373 map
(Possibly billeted in a textile mill. See: photo)
E374 Rauden
E376 Leobschütz
E378 Brück
E380 Ober-Lindenwiese (Horní Lipová) 6 POWs were at the Holbaum saw mill, loading and unloading timber. Guards: 4 Company, Battalion 438.)
E381 Olbersdorf (Roztocznik) - railway work also: notes
E382 Ratibor
E383 ? Sugar Beet Factory (Hohen Fels?)
E384 Chromec, railway work link
E385 Friedrichsgrätz
E386 Schöndorf (Krasna)
E388 Bodisch
E389 Rudgershagen
E391 Mahr Trubau
E392 Oppeln (Opole)
E393 Mittel-Lazisk
E394 Turawa
E396 Lubowitz
E397 Mosern? or Adolfovice/Adelsdorf Prisoners employed in agriculture. Housed in a barn. The squad consisted of 28 prisoners.
E398 Bauerwitz / Baborów also: notes
E399 Sudetenland Cardboard Factory link
E401 Sandhübel (Písečná) [35 in the working party employed by the Becke Natursteinwerk quarry company. They were accommodated at the local railway station]
See this link: link
E403 link
E404 Oppeln (Opole)
E405 Königswald
E406 Seifersdorf, Brickyard
E408 Hennersdorf
E410 Hammerfeld
E411 Hohenzollerngrube Beuthen coal mine also: notes
E414 Hohenbirken, saw mill
E415 Hohenbirken, tile factory
E416 Koschentin
E419 Opole / Groschowitz
E424 Gräfenberg (Lázně Jeseník). 21 in working party working in the grounds of the Priessnitzově spa/sanitorium, where they were accommodated. During the war these facilities were used for were used for the rehabilitation of wounded soldiers and later for children from bombed German cities. Guards: 4 Company, Battalion 438. See this link: link
E428 Derschau, saw mill link
E431 Unter-Weckelsdorf
E432 Lichtenwalde (Poręba) card
E433 Altrothwasser (Stará Červená Voda) 20 POWs employed at the Bat'a company quarry's Dunsthöhle site and accommodated on site.
See this link: link
E435 Sakrau
E437 Langendorf
E438 Oppeln (Opole)
E440 Glatz
E441 Glatz
E442 Neudorf
E444 Beneschau
E446 Zuckmantel (Zlaté Hory) Sawmill [POWs accommodated in the sawmill buildings - 11 in the working party] See this link: link
E450 Ebersdorf
E451 Falkenau
E452 Gleiwitz / Öhringen also: notes
E453 also: notes
E454 Mühldorf
E455 Willmansdorf
E456 Kalkau
E459 Freheit (Sudentenland) Paper factory - 15 men in the working party (see this link)
E460 building railway bridge
E461 Barzdorf (Bernartice u Javorník) Working on the Latzel estate - 10 POWs.
E475 Weidengut
E476 Ziegenhals
E477 Deutsch-Wette
E478 Tost
E479 Tarnowitz
E484 Neisse. labouring
E486 Neisse labouring
E488 Grottkau
E489 Jauernig (Javorník) 6 POWs did farm work and/or carpentry work for the Speicher Estate. They were accommodated at the railway station in ‘House No. 148’
E490 Beuthen railway building
E492 Adolf Rieger Construction Company, Niklasdorf (Jeseníku) list of names and this list
E494 Gleiwitz Ost (Possibly Gleiwitz Ost railway station, later known as Gleiwitz Sośnica.) / Gliwice also this link: Gleiwitz Ost 2
E495 Freiwaldau (Jasenik) 5 POWs worked in the Stellmacher Steiner engineering factory. Guards: 4 Company, Battalion 438.See this link: link
E497 Freiwaldau (Jasenik) The work was loading and unloading trucks.
E500 Breslau
See this link: link
E403 link
E404 Oppeln (Opole)
E405 Königswald
E406 Seifersdorf, Brickyard
E408 Hennersdorf
E410 Hammerfeld
E411 Hohenzollerngrube Beuthen coal mine also: notes
E414 Hohenbirken, saw mill
E415 Hohenbirken, tile factory
E416 Koschentin
E419 Opole / Groschowitz
E424 Gräfenberg (Lázně Jeseník). 21 in working party working in the grounds of the Priessnitzově spa/sanitorium, where they were accommodated. During the war these facilities were used for were used for the rehabilitation of wounded soldiers and later for children from bombed German cities. Guards: 4 Company, Battalion 438. See this link: link
E428 Derschau, saw mill link
E431 Unter-Weckelsdorf
E432 Lichtenwalde (Poręba) card
E433 Altrothwasser (Stará Červená Voda) 20 POWs employed at the Bat'a company quarry's Dunsthöhle site and accommodated on site.
See this link: link
E435 Sakrau
E437 Langendorf
E438 Oppeln (Opole)
E440 Glatz
E441 Glatz
E442 Neudorf
E444 Beneschau
E446 Zuckmantel (Zlaté Hory) Sawmill [POWs accommodated in the sawmill buildings - 11 in the working party] See this link: link
E450 Ebersdorf
E451 Falkenau
E452 Gleiwitz / Öhringen also: notes
E453 also: notes
E454 Mühldorf
E455 Willmansdorf
E456 Kalkau
E459 Freheit (Sudentenland) Paper factory - 15 men in the working party (see this link)
E460 building railway bridge
E461 Barzdorf (Bernartice u Javorník) Working on the Latzel estate - 10 POWs.
E475 Weidengut
E476 Ziegenhals
E477 Deutsch-Wette
E478 Tost
E479 Tarnowitz
E484 Neisse. labouring
E486 Neisse labouring
E488 Grottkau
E489 Jauernig (Javorník) 6 POWs did farm work and/or carpentry work for the Speicher Estate. They were accommodated at the railway station in ‘House No. 148’
E490 Beuthen railway building
E492 Adolf Rieger Construction Company, Niklasdorf (Jeseníku) list of names and this list
E494 Gleiwitz Ost (Possibly Gleiwitz Ost railway station, later known as Gleiwitz Sośnica.) / Gliwice also this link: Gleiwitz Ost 2
E495 Freiwaldau (Jasenik) 5 POWs worked in the Stellmacher Steiner engineering factory. Guards: 4 Company, Battalion 438.See this link: link
E497 Freiwaldau (Jasenik) The work was loading and unloading trucks.
E500 Breslau
E501 Ratibor
E502 Burghammer / Grube Brigitta brown coal mine [actually administered by Stalag IVA, Elsterhorst]
E504 Patschkau
E508 Laurahutte / near Katowice [possibly around 900 POWs working in an arms factory - this is mentioned in a document here http://www.tenhumbergreinhard.de/1933-1945-lager-1/1933-1945-lager-a/auschwitz-oswiecim.php - Auschwitz was not far away and there was also a sub-camp of Auschwitz at Laurahutte]
also
E508 Laubusch / Grube Erika brown coal mine [actually administered by Stalag IVA Elsterhorst]
E510 ? Sugar Beet factory
E513 Dombrowa mine
E532 Stephansdorf
E534 Patschkau
E535 Milowitz / Sosnowitz West coal mine
see: The Tiki Times
E536 Neisse
E537 Althammer
E538 Sosnowice mine also: notes
E539 Jauernig / Freiwaldau/ Niklasdorf (Jasenik / Mikulovice u Jeseníku) Steam sawmill. Prisoners housed outside the village, in a factory building, near the road.
See this link: link
E540 Bölten (Bělotín) Cz
E541 Quellengrund
E542 Fohrengrund ub Gleiwtz
E543 Drmbrowa
E546 see this document
E547 Neudorf
E548 Sandau
E549 Jakobswalde (Jewish/Palestinian)
E550 Hohenbirken, tannery
E551 Bankau (Bąków)
E552 Hindenberg Philipstr
E553 Ratibor
E557 Hemmersdorf
E560 Turawa
E561 Jaworzno / Tarnowtitz. railway depot loading and unloading trains
E562 Coal mine "Janina", near Libiaz
E563 Bory Jelen Jaworzno / Robertsgrube
E565 Arthurgrube / Sierza Wodna coal mine [Situated close to the river on the outskirts of Trzebinia in Upper Silesia, Poland. About 100 prisoners were housed in huts.]
E566 Borkendorf
E567 Heinersdorf / Leinersdorf
E568 Lugendorf-Meinfeld
E569 Schönwalde
E570 Ratiborhammer
E571 Grassen / Gruden forestry department
E753
E574 Ziegenhals (Glucholazy) / Possibly quarry work
or maybe:
E574 Sowin - small joinery factory - see these links: Bradley Cook
E575 Sandowitz
E577 Saubsdorf (Supíkovice) About 35 POWs. See this link: link
E578 Peiskretscham (Pyskowice)
E579 Niwka See these links: Forster/Bryson Morum also: notes
E580 Czelads (Czeladź) Saturn Mine
E581 Tillowitz
E582 Neisse
E584 Marschendorf
E585 Jagerndorf, brickyard
E586 Kazimierz
E587 Czeladsgrube (Czelads Piaski) Coal mine see this link (Piaski mine is mentioned near the bottom of page)
E588 Rauden (Rudy) E588 information
E589 Jägerndorf / Otterfelde
E590 Freiwaldau (Jasenik) See this link: link
E591 Jassen
E592 Freiwaldau (Jasenik)
E594 Konigshutte Ost also: notes
E595 Adolfovice/Adelsdorf Prisoners employed at the Max Legler factory making saws and other tools, mostly loading and unloading materials, accommodated in the factory building. Consisted of 31 prisoners.
E596 Jaworzno (SS Lager Neu Dachs / Dachs Gruber) link 1 link 2 link 3 link 4
E597 Olbendorf
E599 Ottmuthweiche
E600 Oberglogau (Głogówek) Sugar Beet Factory also: notes
E502 Burghammer / Grube Brigitta brown coal mine [actually administered by Stalag IVA, Elsterhorst]
E504 Patschkau
E508 Laurahutte / near Katowice [possibly around 900 POWs working in an arms factory - this is mentioned in a document here http://www.tenhumbergreinhard.de/1933-1945-lager-1/1933-1945-lager-a/auschwitz-oswiecim.php - Auschwitz was not far away and there was also a sub-camp of Auschwitz at Laurahutte]
also
E508 Laubusch / Grube Erika brown coal mine [actually administered by Stalag IVA Elsterhorst]
E510 ? Sugar Beet factory
E513 Dombrowa mine
E532 Stephansdorf
E534 Patschkau
E535 Milowitz / Sosnowitz West coal mine
see: The Tiki Times
E536 Neisse
E537 Althammer
E538 Sosnowice mine also: notes
E539 Jauernig / Freiwaldau/ Niklasdorf (Jasenik / Mikulovice u Jeseníku) Steam sawmill. Prisoners housed outside the village, in a factory building, near the road.
See this link: link
E540 Bölten (Bělotín) Cz
E541 Quellengrund
E542 Fohrengrund ub Gleiwtz
E543 Drmbrowa
E546 see this document
E547 Neudorf
E548 Sandau
E549 Jakobswalde (Jewish/Palestinian)
E550 Hohenbirken, tannery
E551 Bankau (Bąków)
E552 Hindenberg Philipstr
E553 Ratibor
E557 Hemmersdorf
E560 Turawa
E561 Jaworzno / Tarnowtitz. railway depot loading and unloading trains
E562 Coal mine "Janina", near Libiaz
E563 Bory Jelen Jaworzno / Robertsgrube
E565 Arthurgrube / Sierza Wodna coal mine [Situated close to the river on the outskirts of Trzebinia in Upper Silesia, Poland. About 100 prisoners were housed in huts.]
E566 Borkendorf
E567 Heinersdorf / Leinersdorf
E568 Lugendorf-Meinfeld
E569 Schönwalde
E570 Ratiborhammer
E571 Grassen / Gruden forestry department
E753
E574 Ziegenhals (Glucholazy) / Possibly quarry work
or maybe:
E574 Sowin - small joinery factory - see these links: Bradley Cook
E575 Sandowitz
E577 Saubsdorf (Supíkovice) About 35 POWs. See this link: link
E578 Peiskretscham (Pyskowice)
E579 Niwka See these links: Forster/Bryson Morum also: notes
E580 Czelads (Czeladź) Saturn Mine
E581 Tillowitz
E582 Neisse
E584 Marschendorf
E585 Jagerndorf, brickyard
E586 Kazimierz
E587 Czeladsgrube (Czelads Piaski) Coal mine see this link (Piaski mine is mentioned near the bottom of page)
E588 Rauden (Rudy) E588 information
E589 Jägerndorf / Otterfelde
E590 Freiwaldau (Jasenik) See this link: link
E591 Jassen
E592 Freiwaldau (Jasenik)
E594 Konigshutte Ost also: notes
E595 Adolfovice/Adelsdorf Prisoners employed at the Max Legler factory making saws and other tools, mostly loading and unloading materials, accommodated in the factory building. Consisted of 31 prisoners.
E596 Jaworzno (SS Lager Neu Dachs / Dachs Gruber) link 1 link 2 link 3 link 4
E597 Olbendorf
E599 Ottmuthweiche
E600 Oberglogau (Głogówek) Sugar Beet Factory also: notes
E603 Hindenburg Concordia Coal mine
E606 Jägerndorf (Krnov)
E607 Mochau, Sugar Beet Factory also: notes
E608 Poppelau / Hirschfelde (Kaniów)
E609 Kokottek / Koschmieder
E628 Stephansdorf
E701 Tichau Czulow (paper factory)
E702 Klimontow coal mine see these links: Klimontow 1 Klimontow 2
E703 Poppelau
E704 Rosengrund
E706 Gleiwitz / Coal mine near Jaworzno, mostly Australians and New Zealanders
E707 Sosnowitz
E709 Stauwerder
E711 Reigersfeld (IG Farben) also: notes
E711A Heydebreck
E713 Kasimirgrube
E714 Blechhammer - located in Blechhammer as part of Dorflager, building the OHW factory, 760 men, mostly moved from Italian camps, set up in September 1943. The OHW (Upper Silesian Hydrogenation Works) was intended to produce fuel from coal for the German armed forces.
E715 Auschwitz III (Monowitz) Monowitz was under the direction of the industrial company IG Farben, who were building a Buna (synthetic rubber) and liquid fuel plant there. It also had carbonization and carbide departments. See these links: link 1 link 2 link 3 link 4 link 5 link 6
E720 Klimontow / Kathau-Wiesenau
E721 Kathau-Wiesenau
E723 Oppeln (Opole)
E724 Schwientochlowitz / Hohenlinde
E725 Konigshutte Bismark
E727 Mechtal Beuthen. power station
E728 Neu Oderberg - Railway work? photos
E730 Freiwaldau (Jeseník) 21 POWs employed in the spinning mill Regenhart and Raymann spinning mill. They were accommodated in the Na Bělidle prison camp. (After the liberation the prisoners' quarters were used as an internment camp.)
See this link: link
E731 Zabrzeg
E732 Szyakowa
E733 Karlsthal
E734 Schoppintiz
E737 Vosswalde / Fosowskie Kolonowskie - Chemische Fabrik Vosswalde produced charcoal, which was bagged and sent out by rail, and its by-product of wood alcohol.
E738 Trzebinia
E739 Dombrowa Grunkolonie / Ziegenhals
E740 Kobier / Langendorf
E742 Ober Lazisk / Rauden
E743 Jungferndorf (Kobylá) / Schwientochlowitz. 21 POWs working for the Vohwinkel timber business, or in the laundry of the Regenhart and Raymann arms factory. They were accommodated in the Na Bělidle prison camp. (After the liberation the prisoners' quarters were used as an internment camp.)
E744 Kazimierz / Lenztal - Coal mine
E746 Konigshutte/ Jogsdorf (Jakubčovice nad Odrou) Stone quarry, 34 men.
E747 Reichsbahn
E749 Peiskretscham (Pyskowice)
E750 Kattowitz / Baildonhütte
E753
E754 Czeladz - Probably a coal mine.
E755 Wojkowitz Komorne
E756 Radzionkau
E757 Morenrot / Stahlhammer
E758 Knurow
E766 Leobschütz
E768 Kumau?
E769 Reigersfeld (sometimes referred to as Heydebreck or Blechammer South). It was a small camp and held about 600 men most of whom had originally been in Italian POW camps. The camp was constructed in 1944 and the men were used as labour on the IG Farben synthetic oil facility. All the Blechammer sites were priority bombing targets during WW2.
E770 Ottmuth shoe factory picture See also this information
E771 Neisse
E773 Ruderswald
E774 Ratibor
E776 Gräfenberg (Lázně Jeseník) This working party was just one person, employed as a dental assistant. The dentist's name was Gocieka.
E778 Schurgast
E779 Zuckmantel (Zlaté Hory) [27 in the working party]
E780 Weidenau (Vidnava) 46 POWs working for the Didier company (possibly ceramics). Guards: 4 Company, Battalion 438.)
See this link: link
E781 Reihwiesen (Rejvíz) 61 POWs working in the so-called 'Archbishop's Forest'. Housed together with Russian POWs. Guards: 4 Company, Battalion 438
E782 Ratiborhammer
E786 Zuckmantel (Zlaté Hory) Scholz printing works [just 1 POW]. See this link: link
E790 Gurschdorf (Skorošice) 21 POWs working for the Granit AG company. Accommodated in building no. 196, together with French POWs. Guards: 4 Company, Battalion 438. See this link: link
E791 Würbenthal (Vrbno) E. Grohmann Flax spinning works
E792 Niklasdorf (Mikulovice u Jeseníku) [The prisoners were employed in local quarries. Accommodated in a POW camp on the old Salisova road, together with Russian prisoners.]
E793 Was originally named BAB 21 and BAB 48 (see above)
E794 Heydebreck (was BAB 20 and BAB 40 - see this link E794 link) also: information
E797 Ober Lindenwiese (Lipová Lázně/Spa) See this link: link
E799 Schönhorst
E800 Klodnitz
E902 Delbruckschachte-Hindenburg coal mine
E12001 Weizenrodau Sugar beet factory
E606 Jägerndorf (Krnov)
E607 Mochau, Sugar Beet Factory also: notes
E608 Poppelau / Hirschfelde (Kaniów)
E609 Kokottek / Koschmieder
E628 Stephansdorf
E701 Tichau Czulow (paper factory)
E702 Klimontow coal mine see these links: Klimontow 1 Klimontow 2
E703 Poppelau
E704 Rosengrund
E706 Gleiwitz / Coal mine near Jaworzno, mostly Australians and New Zealanders
E707 Sosnowitz
E709 Stauwerder
E711 Reigersfeld (IG Farben) also: notes
E711A Heydebreck
E713 Kasimirgrube
E714 Blechhammer - located in Blechhammer as part of Dorflager, building the OHW factory, 760 men, mostly moved from Italian camps, set up in September 1943. The OHW (Upper Silesian Hydrogenation Works) was intended to produce fuel from coal for the German armed forces.
E715 Auschwitz III (Monowitz) Monowitz was under the direction of the industrial company IG Farben, who were building a Buna (synthetic rubber) and liquid fuel plant there. It also had carbonization and carbide departments. See these links: link 1 link 2 link 3 link 4 link 5 link 6
E720 Klimontow / Kathau-Wiesenau
E721 Kathau-Wiesenau
E723 Oppeln (Opole)
E724 Schwientochlowitz / Hohenlinde
E725 Konigshutte Bismark
E727 Mechtal Beuthen. power station
E728 Neu Oderberg - Railway work? photos
E730 Freiwaldau (Jeseník) 21 POWs employed in the spinning mill Regenhart and Raymann spinning mill. They were accommodated in the Na Bělidle prison camp. (After the liberation the prisoners' quarters were used as an internment camp.)
See this link: link
E731 Zabrzeg
E732 Szyakowa
E733 Karlsthal
E734 Schoppintiz
E737 Vosswalde / Fosowskie Kolonowskie - Chemische Fabrik Vosswalde produced charcoal, which was bagged and sent out by rail, and its by-product of wood alcohol.
E738 Trzebinia
E739 Dombrowa Grunkolonie / Ziegenhals
E740 Kobier / Langendorf
E742 Ober Lazisk / Rauden
E743 Jungferndorf (Kobylá) / Schwientochlowitz. 21 POWs working for the Vohwinkel timber business, or in the laundry of the Regenhart and Raymann arms factory. They were accommodated in the Na Bělidle prison camp. (After the liberation the prisoners' quarters were used as an internment camp.)
E744 Kazimierz / Lenztal - Coal mine
E746 Konigshutte/ Jogsdorf (Jakubčovice nad Odrou) Stone quarry, 34 men.
E747 Reichsbahn
E749 Peiskretscham (Pyskowice)
E750 Kattowitz / Baildonhütte
E753
E754 Czeladz - Probably a coal mine.
E755 Wojkowitz Komorne
E756 Radzionkau
E757 Morenrot / Stahlhammer
E758 Knurow
E766 Leobschütz
E768 Kumau?
E769 Reigersfeld (sometimes referred to as Heydebreck or Blechammer South). It was a small camp and held about 600 men most of whom had originally been in Italian POW camps. The camp was constructed in 1944 and the men were used as labour on the IG Farben synthetic oil facility. All the Blechammer sites were priority bombing targets during WW2.
E770 Ottmuth shoe factory picture See also this information
E771 Neisse
E773 Ruderswald
E774 Ratibor
E776 Gräfenberg (Lázně Jeseník) This working party was just one person, employed as a dental assistant. The dentist's name was Gocieka.
E778 Schurgast
E779 Zuckmantel (Zlaté Hory) [27 in the working party]
E780 Weidenau (Vidnava) 46 POWs working for the Didier company (possibly ceramics). Guards: 4 Company, Battalion 438.)
See this link: link
E781 Reihwiesen (Rejvíz) 61 POWs working in the so-called 'Archbishop's Forest'. Housed together with Russian POWs. Guards: 4 Company, Battalion 438
E782 Ratiborhammer
E786 Zuckmantel (Zlaté Hory) Scholz printing works [just 1 POW]. See this link: link
E790 Gurschdorf (Skorošice) 21 POWs working for the Granit AG company. Accommodated in building no. 196, together with French POWs. Guards: 4 Company, Battalion 438. See this link: link
E791 Würbenthal (Vrbno) E. Grohmann Flax spinning works
E792 Niklasdorf (Mikulovice u Jeseníku) [The prisoners were employed in local quarries. Accommodated in a POW camp on the old Salisova road, together with Russian prisoners.]
E793 Was originally named BAB 21 and BAB 48 (see above)
E794 Heydebreck (was BAB 20 and BAB 40 - see this link E794 link) also: information
E797 Ober Lindenwiese (Lipová Lázně/Spa) See this link: link
E799 Schönhorst
E800 Klodnitz
E902 Delbruckschachte-Hindenburg coal mine
E12001 Weizenrodau Sugar beet factory
2. OTHER LISTS
Here are links to other lists of Working Parties, giving some geographical locations - but mostly with the former German names:
In the Blechhammer district:
Here is a list compiled by Edward Haduch, to whom many thanks: Click Here
There is a good list of Working Parties HERE with links to more information.
A useful list from Jaroslav Spáčil in Šumperk, Czechia
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=cs&u=http://www.kostelik.estranky.cz/clanky/hledani-zajatcu/seznam-pracovnich-taboru-na-jesenicku.html&prev=search
http://www.evzi.estranky.cz/clanky/mista-zajeti-a-internace-1922-1954/zajatecke-tabory-v-nemecku-a-na-okupovanych-oblastech-1939-1945/seznam-zajateckych-pracovnich-komand-v-cechach--na-morave-a-ve-slezsku-1939-1945/vojensky-okruh-viii--oblast-tesinskeho-slezska--severni-moravy--severovychodnich-a-severnich-cech/landkreis-neutitschein--novy-jicin-.html
http://www.pegasusarchive.org/pow/Work_camps.htm
http://powvets.com/pow-camps/stalags/lamsdorf-work-camps/
3. NAME CHANGES
These sites help you to find the modern, Polish or Czech names of places that had German names during the second world war:
If these pages are interesting or helpful to you
and you would like to donate £1 or $1 to help support this website,
please click HERE.
Here are links to other lists of Working Parties, giving some geographical locations - but mostly with the former German names:
In the Blechhammer district:
Here is a list compiled by Edward Haduch, to whom many thanks: Click Here
There is a good list of Working Parties HERE with links to more information.
A useful list from Jaroslav Spáčil in Šumperk, Czechia
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=cs&u=http://www.kostelik.estranky.cz/clanky/hledani-zajatcu/seznam-pracovnich-taboru-na-jesenicku.html&prev=search
http://www.evzi.estranky.cz/clanky/mista-zajeti-a-internace-1922-1954/zajatecke-tabory-v-nemecku-a-na-okupovanych-oblastech-1939-1945/seznam-zajateckych-pracovnich-komand-v-cechach--na-morave-a-ve-slezsku-1939-1945/vojensky-okruh-viii--oblast-tesinskeho-slezska--severni-moravy--severovychodnich-a-severnich-cech/landkreis-neutitschein--novy-jicin-.html
http://www.pegasusarchive.org/pow/Work_camps.htm
http://powvets.com/pow-camps/stalags/lamsdorf-work-camps/
3. NAME CHANGES
These sites help you to find the modern, Polish or Czech names of places that had German names during the second world war:
- http://www.kartenmeister.com/preview/databaseuwe.asp
- http://www.atsnotes.com/other/gerpol.html
- 'Facing Fearful Odds' list (click where it says 'page 272' to see the full list)
- http://bunzlau.siegburg.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=37&Itemid=66
- Czech: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical
- A list of places encountered on the Long March of 1945, with historical and modern names, and other data
If these pages are interesting or helpful to you
and you would like to donate £1 or $1 to help support this website,
please click HERE.