Blechhammer concentration camp

Blechhammer
subcamp
Former watchtower
LocationBlechhammer, East Upper Silesia, Nazi Germany
Operated byNazi Germany
Operational1 April 1944–26 January 1945
InmatesMostly Jews
Websiteauschwitz.org/en/history/auschwitz-sub-camps/blechhammer/
Former crematorium of the camp

Blechhammer was the second-largest subcamp of Auschwitz concentration camp, part of the Blechhammer industrial area where several camps were located. The camp was evacuated on 21 January 1945; five days later, German forces returned to kill some survivors who had been left behind.