CAMP OP-3 ('MONOPOL') - COMPULSORY LABOR CAMP IN WARSAW

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500480076-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 1, 2003
• Sequence Number: 76
• Publication Date: May 3, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SUBJECT Camp 0;1-3 ( 'i1onopol') - Compulsory Labor Camp in
::r~rsa.r
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
Administration
"The emmn is commended Lt. /fnu7 Urbaniak and his deputy.
i. "The compulsory labor camp OP-3 (known popularly as 'Monopol' because it is
located in the pre-World War IZ state tobacco monopoly buildings in "ria^?saw)
is still in operation. it is located in the Muranow district, which i.e now
under reconstruction a:; a main residential area. The following information
dates through 1953.
2. "The mail address for Camp O11-3 is 43 Anielewicza Street (formerly
pawia Street), Warsaw. The otrset received its new name after World War II
in ,Memory of the leader of the famous Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
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the name of the latter; hie, nickname is 'Blondynek'. Both these men are
renowned for their cruelty.
Inmates
4. "The 'Monopol' compulsory labor ctunp is a sort of transit camp. The inmates
are sent to 'I1onopol' from various: Polish prisons, the majority of them to
finish out their sentences.
5. "There is also a small group of men with life sentences, Many of them
engineers and construction experts. They are held in community cells,
apart from the other cells on the ground floor of the bailding. They are
primarily used to work on plans for the rebuilding of Warsaw. It is said
that they receive sketcheu and designs from outside sources on which they
must elaborate the technical details. This work is performed in a
special drafting office.
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6. "The regular labor camp inmates are split up in groups at 'Monopol' to be
sent to another compulsory labor camp or to work on various state con-
struction projects. During 1952-53 the number of inmates varied from
2,500 to 3,O(A, men. Some hundreds of these men are employed in the camp
itself, on the Droductirn of pre-fabricated construction parts from cement
and with pulverizing brick rubble. Out of this material special con-
struction-plates ana tube bricks (bricks with holes) are produced for use
all over Warsaw in the reconstruction project. Compulsory work in the
camp is done in two shifts. The raw materials are brought to the 'ilonopol'
Camp by a special normal-gauge r--ilway side line and are carried to the
various con!,truction tables sy a narrow-gauge rail,ay-line within the camp.
7. The Radocha Camp resembles the ':Monopol' Cmp it that it is a kind of transit and
distribution camp for an ii.dustry. The Radoche Camp operates as a central
distribution point for compulsory labor camp inmates who are destined to work
in coal mines.
8. "Discipline in the 'idonopol' Camp is strenuous. The men are always ordered
by camp regulations to run, not to walk, along the pattern of the World
War fI German concentration camps.
Buildings
9. "The inmates are housed in the four-story, pre-World Wr, II building of the tobacco
monopoly. The building has been remodelled. The men ai.. &ruuped in
community cells, mostly 30 men to one cell. The cells are on the upper
floors. On the ground-floor, besides the community cells for the life
sentences, are the offices of the labor camp administration and the UB
control section.
10. "A small building close to the main building house,. the inmates who
work outside the camp.
12. "A sports field is available.. It is rarely used because the inmates have
to work nearly every Sunday. Only the few inmates who work over-
norms are entitled to' a few hours, off on Sunday, wnen their families are
allowed to visit them in a special building.
Product ion
13. "l. roduction norms are h?gh: up to 800 concrete-plates per day for a team
of five men. An one plate with its forma uo -called Dems plate, weighs
more than 8U kgu, this norm is immense. i,quipmcnt on auxiliary machines
is kept to a minimum.
14. "As in other compuluory labor camps the Innuateu of 'ldonopol' receive wages.
Fifty per cent of the amount due in taken by the estate for 'maintoncu co'
coats; 251a In brought forward Into & blookoM a;eoount; and only the remain-
ing P51%, is left to the inmateu not in cash ',)ut in the form of a canteen
account.
This was just barely onoug to buy sonata o igaraattos and roe and marga-
rine for additional food; the camp #Yood wao very poor.
16. "The camp food oonaoiotod rr,aa'inly of groats, oookod Dither as a soup or a
purayr, and of codfish. The individual, broad ration, dark breaC was only
50C c".. Additionally every inmcaU received 13 g uugar per day.
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remember about five times during my period of imprisonment having a dish
,?:ith pieces of meat.
17. "The camp ha.: to kinds if disciplinary punishments. One, to be sent to
Cell No. 11, s community cell where the inmates have to stay mostly for
seven nights. The cell has no beds; the men must sleep on the concrete
floor with only one blanket as cover. Although they work during the day
they are deprived their evening-meal ?rhen under punishment. The :;e1' ?er
punishment is the 'karzer'. The 'karzer' is in the cellar under the
prison yard. It h:ss completely dark single cells.
and night in the 'karzer'; the longest punishment period there is seven
deys, ?.dth only water and 300 gram:: of bread.
18. "adore serious punishment cases are sent to the nearby Gesiowka Prison for
a short term, or to one of the hardest .=olish prisons in ;;trzelce Opolskie
(German: Gross-:irel.Ltz). Strzelce Upolskie has two prisons. One is the
lzolacyjne (Isolation Prison) where the inmates sit in single cells,
completely isolated from the world. 1 he second is the Centralne,(Central
i'rison), to which a compulsory labor cainp is attached. The'li=a ' dl tYi h
cusp work in a stone quarry.
19. "According to hearsay, the '11ionopol' compulsory labor camp and the adjoining
CK'WO compulsory labor camp, which is a part of the Gesiowka Prison, 1?iill be
shortly L pring 195/ transferred from the Muranow district to another
locality. The ground on vhich the camp is located will be needed in 1954
under the construction project for this residential district. The inmates,
according to the rumor, will be transferred to a new compulsory labor camp
in Sluzewiec, a southern suburb of ;aruaw, :,here a new camp was!.grgaziized
in 1953. Aside from their labor on various construction projects in the^
Sluzewiec industrial district, the inmates of the new camp have er.:ted
large barrtcks to house around 12,000 inmates. After its completion
this will be the main compulsory labor camp in '-arsaw. To it will come
inmates "rom 'Monopol' and the CKW..Geoiowka camp, and inmates from
other smaller Warsaw compulsory camps.
20. "Late rumors also state that the recently introduced practioa nf' sending /prisoner)
to work together with free workers will be abolished. The contact
through ouch mixture has enabled some inmates to escape. Free workers
have also acted as intermediaries for several matters."
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