City Council in the resolution Brzeszczach NO XXXIX/395/14 of 24 April 2014. Decided to transfer our Foundation in use for a period of 25 years the old school building in Bor. In the period of the camp Auschwitz-Birkenau were here imprisoned women from the penal company.
Its formation was directly related to the escape in June 1942 with the commandos of the female prisoner Janina Nowak. Germany, to tighten discipline applied collective responsibility. All 400 women had their heads shaven, and the commando was transformed into a penal company. The prisoners were accommodated in a school building in Bor and the nearby barracks. Band consisted of Polish women, constituting the majority, and Jewish women from France and Slovakia, Russians, Ukrainians, Yugoslavians, Czech women and German women. The area was fenced with wire not connected to the electricity and four towers. The prisoners worked deepening and cleaning fish ponds, cleaning of drainage ditches and the construction of the queue and dam on the Vistula River.
Severe working conditions and cruel treatment by functional prisoners for many ended in death. From June to August 1942 with 200 Polish women survived the 137, and in October of this year, about 90 Jewish French women prisoners were brutally murdered by prisoners and SS function guards. Existing today former school building in Bor, is a silent witness to the tragic events of 5 October 1942.
In April 1943,to the school in Budy were sent 200 prisoners Polish women. Germans created several detachments assigned to work on the farm, works of forest nurseries of forest trees, fruit trees and the construction of the shaft on the Vistula River. In March 1944 the number of prisoners increased to 455. During the times of grown intensity of the seasonal work was brought to a subcamp of commandos coming. The camp was evacuated in the autumn of 1944, the prisoners were taken into Germany to ammunition factories.
As part of its business Foundation of Places Near Near Auschwitz-Birkenau intends to protect this unique place, and make its story closer. Given area of the Foundation will operate as part of its statutory activity and in accordance with the applicable administrative area. We are currently awaiting the signature of a notary deed, on the basis of which will be handed down to us the abovementioned building.
Authorities of the Foundation gives its thanks for the City Council, to the Chairman of the City Council, and the Steward of Brzeszcze for taking our Foundation into co-operation and for their confidence in us.
