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MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU FORMER GERMAN NAZI
CONCENTRATION AND EXTERMINATION CAMP

Sonderkommando Kattowitz

A small sub-camp formed in January 1944. About ten prisoners spent almost a year building an air-raid shelter and barracks for the Gestapo in Katowice (German: Kattowitz).

Source: Auschwitz from A to Z. An Illustrated History