Plauen (Industriewerke AG) Subcamp
September 1944 – April 14, 1945
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Former Industriewerke in Plauen, 2018 (Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial / Photo: Rainer Viertlböck). Since 2022, the building is demolished.
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Plan of the attic floor of the Industriewerke, September 27, 1944 (Landesarchiv Berlin). The room labelled “Lager” (compound) was where the prisoners were quartered, directly next to their workplaces.
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Prisoners
300 women from the concentration camp Auschwitz, of whom over 200 were Polish, 40 Russian, 35 Italian, 4 Yugoslavian and one Croatian.
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Forced labor and quarters
Due to suspicions of Typhus, the women were initially quarantined for three weeks. They then worked in manufacturing different types of lamps for Osram; following air raids they were deployed for debris clearing.
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The women were quartered on the attic floor of the Industriewerke, a disused textile factory; the prisoners’ kitchen was set up in the basement.
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Guards
Head overseer Hildegard Naujokat and 18 female overseers. Detail leader Dziobaka was responsible for all of the three subcamps in Plauen.
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Death toll
No verified deaths
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Disbanding of the camp / end of the war
The camp was disbanded on April 14, 1945; the prisoners were sent in the direction of Karlsbad (Karlovy Vary) and after a long death march were liberated near Tachau (Tachov).
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Commemoration
An information point on site.