Huta Komorowska - '45 Aid Society

Members of the Boys were slave labourers in the Huta Komorowska labour camp in southeastern Poland.

The Huta Komorowska labour camp was set and run by Nazi Germany.

The Boys were teenage and child-Holocaust survivors, who were brought to the UK after the war for rest and rehabilitation.

History

The camp at Huta Komorowska camp was a logging operation located in a forest mid-way between Kraków and Rzeszów.

There is little information about the camp.

In the spring of 1943 400 prisoners were held in the camp. That number later grew.

Prisoners slept on the floor of the barracks that was infested with vermin. Many of them were sick with typhoid. Production was wound down in the summer of 1943. Prisoners were worked eighteen hours a day, every day.

After logging production at Huta Komarowska wound down at the end of summer 1943, prisoners were mostly transferred to the Pustków labour camp.

Official Name:

Lager Huta Komorowska

Period of operation:

1942-43

Dissolution:

Transfer to Pustków

Slave labour:

Logging

Number of prisoners:

400

Type of prisoners:

Male & Female

Memorialisation:

Unknown

Associated Boys:

It is possible that more members of the Boys than those boys who have been identified were taken as slave labourers to the Huta Komorowska labour camp. Members of their family and friends may also have died in the camp.

Alfred Buchführer
Zysel Brenner
Chaim Brenner
Simon Lecker

Associated Camps:

Other labour camps in which members of the Boys were held that have so far been identified:

Bełžec Lubelski
Brande
Częstochowa-HASAG

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