LABOR CAMP FOR JUVENILES AT JAWORZNO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004301160005-1
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 1, 2002
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: July 28, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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Labor Camp for Juveniles
at Jaworzno
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This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.B. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
28 July 195+
1. The Labor Camp for Juveniles at Jaworzno is located along the highway connecting
Jaworzno with Stalinogrod (Katowice).
2. In the camp juveniles between 16 and 21 yea's of a e are imprisoned, mostly
for political reasons'(so-called faszysci i zdrajcee,
and for fights, thefts or abandonment of work (so-called bumelanetwo i hull-
ganstwo)a The sentences amount to four to ten years of imprisonment. Approxi-
mately 3000 juveniles are imprisoned at this camp.
3. The camp is guarded by a ,detachment of prison-guards, approximately 300 men,
and KBW (Internal Security Corps) patrols control the external part of the camp.
The prison -guards are armed with machine-guns, tonmiy guns and M.1+4 carbines
of Soviet origin.
The following is a legend to the attached sketch:
1. and la. Three-story concrete building, S x 30 x 12 meters: offices, telephone
exchange, guardroom.
2e Three-story concrete building, 10 x 15 x 12 meters: school, where the prisoners
are taught to become mechanics and turners.
3a Three-story concrete building, 8 x 20 x 10 meters: officialst quarters; here
the CO of the prison Kruppa,is accommodated.
4. Two-story concrete building, 4 x 20 x 6 meters: UB office, camp radio (radio-
wezel), guardroom where the prisoners are controlled when going to or
returning from work.
5. Chimney of the boiler room; diameter 1.5 meters, height, approximately 15
meters.
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6o Concrete building, 10 x 15 x 8 meters: a boiler room,
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7. Concrete building, 12 x 20 x 8 meters: a bakery, where bread for the military
units is baked. Every two days the bread is sent by truck to Szczakowa,
8. Concrete building, 6 x 25 x 5 meters: bathroom for prisoners who work at the
coal mines, Feliks and Komuna Paryska; shoemaker's and tailor's shop.
9. Concrete building, 5 x 8 x 3 meters: mechanics' shop and forge.
100 Two-story concrete building, 7 x 20 x 6 meters: storage for the civilian
clothes of the prisoners; storage for work suits of the prisoners.
11. Concrete building, 6 x 15 x 5 meters: storage for food (meat, margarine,
sausages, etc.).
12. Four-story concrete building, 12 x 30 x 16 meters: prisoners' quarters.
130 Four-story concrete building, 12 x 30 x 16 meters: recreation-room (swietlica),
movies and dining-room.
14. Wooden barrack, 7 x 5 x 4 meters: theatre, used only in summer.
15. Four-story concrete building, 12 x 30 x 16 meters: prisoners' quarters.
16. Four-story concrete building, 12 x 30 x 16 meters: prisoners' quarters.
17. Concrete building, 8 x 8 x 5 meters: depot for steam engines, containing one
machine, Henschel a German make from Kassel.
18. Wooden barrack, 5 x 25 x 4 meters: dispensary.
19, Concrete building, 8 x 10 x 6 meters: laundry.
20. Two-story concrete building, 6 x 15 x 6 meters: food storage
21. Concrete building, 10 x 25 x 8 metersa kitchen for prisoners.
22. Concrete object, 7 x 5 meters (3 meters deep): water tank,
23. Concrete building, 6 x 15 x 5 meters: garage, containing four trucks (3 Star
20, 1 Fiat) and one passenger car, Warszawa.
24. Concrete building 6 x 15 x 4 meters: pigsty containing 43 pigs.
25. Concrete building 6 x 15 x 4 meters: pigsty containing 36 pigs.
26. Wooden barrack, 5 x 5 x 3 metersa guardroom where the prisoners are controlled
when going to work. Each prisoner has to call out his name and date of birth.
27. Concrete building, 6 x 15 x 4 meters: pigsty containing approximately 60 pigs,
28. Wooden barrack, 4 x 10 x 4 meters: distribution of food for prisoners who work
in this part of the camp.
29..Hall, concrete building, 15 x 60 x 4 meters, where concrete, hexagonal plates,
concrete steps and concrete bricks, so-called "pustaki" are being produced,.
The products are shipped to Lublin.
30. Concrete building, 7 x 10 x 4 meters: guardroom and room for railroad officials;
here the trains taking the manufactured items out are controlled.
31. Hall, concrete building, 20 x 30 x 6 meters: cement storage.
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31 a. Not identified by Source.
32. Hall, concrete building, S x 4 x 3 meters: testing room for the manufactured
concrete items..
33. Concrete building, 6 x 25 x 5 meters: mechanics' shop.
34. Concrete building, close to building No. 33: fire guard station, where two
new motor-pumps (made in Sweden) are located; the fire guard consists of
prisoners.
35. Three-story concrete building, 10 x 30 x 12 meters: storage for colors,
electric motors., band saws etc.; planning and production control bureaus
are on the third floor.
36. Four-story building, 20 x 50 x 15 meters: still under construction; according
to rumors a kind of foundry will be installed.
37. and 38. Wooden barracks, 5 x 15 x 3 meters: joiners' shop, where lockers for
soldiers are produced.
39. Wooden barracks, 5 x 15 x 3 meters: joiners' shop, producing rifle racks.
40. Wooden barracks, 6 x 30 x 5 meters, painters' shop, where the rifle racks
are painted.
41. and 42. Concrete buildings, 6 x 15 x 5 meters, drying chambers for wood.
43. Railroad siding to the main railroad station at Jaworzno.
44. Barbed wire fence surrounding the part of the camp where the prisoners are
billeted.
45. Alarm-wire, electric,
46. Wall over three meters high with barbed wire on top.
47. Highway to Stalinogrod.
The black circles on the enclosed sketch represent the guard towers.
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Sketch of Labor CMR at Jaworzno
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