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The Fürstengrube concentration camp was one of the largest of the 39 camps dependent on Auschwitz. It was in the village of the same name, called Polish Wesoła, 5 km southwest of Mysłowice in Silesia.

Built in September 1943 as a field of work for the coal mines of Fürstengrube.

It was abandoned on January 19, 1945 as the front approached. Under the last commander of the Lager, SS officer Max Schmidt, who had held this position since March 1944, began a road march for 1,283, which began with the execution of many of them in the Fürstengrube and took them first to the town of Ahrensbök in Schleswig-Holstein, from which came the field commander. The survivors, about 400 prisoners, were shipped to the Cap Arcona, which was sunk by Allied aviation in the Bay of Lübeck on 3 May 1945.

Coordinates: 50 ° 11'30 "N 19 ° 05'50" E / 50.19167, 19.09722

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