VBP FORCED LABOR CAMP NO. 1 IN WARSAW

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 29, 2005
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: December 16, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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OP-1 (0sro, ek Preece No. 1) is a forced labor camp, whose dimensions are a?::,ut
6W by 800 meters. The camp is enclosed by barbed wire. It is located in
Warsaw-Sluzewiec, directly south of the practice racetrack and directly wont
of the racetrack and grandstands.
2. The camp is under the administration of the 'Ministry of Public Security (t{ BP .
3. OP-1 contains approximately 1,500 forced laborers, mostly Poles serving seaa-
tences of up to five years. OP-1 absorbed 700 forced laborers when OP-2 was
consolidated with it in late 195.-' 0P?A2 was formerly located in an area A'J'osceg
the Vistula river, on the northern side of the city.
., OP-1 provides the manpower for PMBP, the construction division of the i'
PMBP is responsible for the construction of all MBP :Facilities in the War* .w
area (over 50 different installations).
5. OP-3 is located near the Jewish cemetery in the "Gaenze Viertel" of Warsaw
There are between 3,000 and $,000 forced laborers beiag held there. These
are prisoners who have received sentences over five years. The forced
laborers in OP-3 are primarily employed in the manufacture of cement.
1952, there were approximately 80 Germans being held {there.
there were only 10 Germans being held there.
6, OP-1 serves also as a staging area for German prisoners of war.
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p~MBP was commanded by Colonel Goldstein (fau). The section
chiefs were an follows: Zaczynski (fnu), chief of construction; Olszevski
(fnu), assistant chief of construction and the project chief for building
No. 500; Kurek (fnu), the assistant project chief for building No. 500;
Glincki (fnu), chief of accounting and costs; Malek (fan), chief of plans,
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Building loo 500 was adjacent to, OI'-1 and was under construction in ;.,ate 1953
This is a four-story building which is to be the riesoo a center for the ATP
and will have telephone and cable connections with all the principal cities
of Poland.
Building No. 267 was also under construction in l:a;;r 1953. This is a 100--e-ex
gal e, with maintenance and repair shops, which is intended for the stahrage
and the maintenance of all IIMP vehicles in the Warsaw area.
10a The practice racetrack, north and adjacent to OP-l,, is used for the dnder-
ground stomv of gasoline supplies for the'ig3P vehicles,
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