The camp of Zgoda was a Concentration camp managed by the communist authorities Polish.
It was in the beginning a section of the camp of Auschwitz, based with Świętochłowice, opened in 1943. Its German name was KZ Eintrachthütte .
In February 1945, after being released by the Red Army , the camp and its infrastructures were used for to officially intern prisoners of the Wehrmacht, but actually a strong proportion of German civilians (including women and children) and some Poles.
According to the Institute of the national memory, between 6.000 and 10.000 people were held there until her closing in November 1945, systematically tortured, sometimes by Solomon Morel itself). The same sources estimate at 1.855 the number of deaths, mainly because of an epidemic of Typhus, and malnutrition.
It was managed by the Służba Bezpieczeństwa . The director of the camp, Solomon Morel, fled with Tel Aviv with the fall of Communism. The Polish authorities since required its extradition, to accuse it for War crimes and Crimes against humanity, until its death the February 14th 2007.
Internal bonds
- Służba Bezpieczeństwa
- Świętochłowice
- Instytut Pamięci Narodowej
- Massacre of Katyń
- Poland during the Second world war
External bonds
- Site of the Institute of the Polish national memory
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