In autumn 1939, in the Schoen factory in Sosnowiec, the Nazis created a prison, where more than 1,500 people were killed.
About the first 200 prisoners were placed in 36 cells set up in a former Jewish school on Ostrogórska Street. The prisoners were brutalny tortured, and their screams were drowned out by the sounds of an accordion. [[refr:"nazwa"|red. Bolesław Ciepiela, Małgorzata Sromek, Śladami Żydów z Zagłębia Dąbrowskiego. Wspomnienia, Stowarzyszenie Autorów Polskich Oddział Będziński, Będzin 2009, s. 118.]]
In the autumn of 1939, the Germans created a camp of the substitute police prison in the Schoen factory on 1 Maja Street. It was later transformed into a subcamp of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp.
The factory buildings were surrounded by barbed wire and the camp was guarded by an SS unit. The prisoners were subjected to severe repressions as well as forced labour in Sosnowiec. The camp was closed in July 1940, and the remaining Jews were probably deported to Czechoslovakia[1.1].
The camp in Schoen factory (Partyzantów Street)
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