Project number: [JOWBR, POL-05243]
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The
KOZLE FORCED LABOR CAMP REMAINS (AUSCHWITZ SUB-CAMP) in KOŹLE, POLAND
Cosel (Koźle) and Breslau (Wroclaw) Cemetery Lists
Peter Landé
The Silesian town of Cosel (now Kozle in Poland) included a sub-camp of Auschwitz. In 2009 Dr. Benjamin Sklarz of Petach Tivka, Israel prepared a list of 130 Jews held as forced laborers who were buried in a Jewish cemetery in Cosel. With two exceptions all were male. Source: ITS collection BArch, R8150/780.
21 of them had formerly resided in nearby Breslau, and their names appear in the 1939 census. I have added their dates and places of birth and, although most of their names do not presently appear in the Gedenkbuch, the Bundesarchiv plans to add them. Where the Gedenkbuch shows that a person died in Auschwitz this will be corrected.
ITS 1.2.2.1 also contains 107 names of Jewish forced laborers who were buried in a cemetery located at Flughafenstrasse 54 in Breslau (Wroclaw).
Information on most decedents has proved to be much more difficult to locate. They may have been Polish but could just as well have been West European since transports on the way to Auschwitz from France, Belgium and the Netherlands were sometimes stopped in Silesia and able-bodied males taken off for local forced labor. In the case of a few persons with unusual names where I was able to identify them positively they were often listed as perishing in Auschwitz with the transport date of arrival, given as the date of death, though, in fact, they never arrived there.
November 12, 2014
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