The following is a list of subcamps of the Majdanek concentration camp run by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II. The list, supplied by the Majdanek State Museum,Majdanek State Museum (2014), Witryna Państwowego Muzeum na Majdanku . Retrieved 6 March 2015. identifies two German categories of the KL Lublin/Majdanek subcamps; the Arbeitzlagers, and the so-called Kommandos. The satellite camps were named Aussenlager (external camp), Nebenlager (extension or subcamp), and Arbeitslager (labor camp). Some of them were less than ten kilometers away from the main camp, with prisoner populations ranging from several dozens to several thousand.
Around 1943 the SS put a number of separate camps under the command of the Majdanek administration including Trawniki, Krasnik, Pulawy and Poniatowa concentration camps. However, a similar plan to include the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp in the list was never realized partly because of the Sobibor extermination camp uprising in the vicinity. Plaszow remained an independent Konzentrationslager associated with Auschwitz.
Subcamps of Majdanek Guarded by the SS division of the Totenkopfverbände, the known sub-camps of KL Majdanek included:
#.NameLocationDurationFunctionPrisonersFirms1.DAW LublinLublin: ul. Lipowa, ul. Chełmska; Puławy1940-1944MultipurposeYearly from 1,220 (1940) to 15,779 (1944)Deutsche Ausruestungswerke (DAW)2.Arbeitslager RadomBliżyn, RadomSince winter 1944Workshops, factories2,500 prisonersDeutsche Ausruestungswerke (DAW)3.Arbeitzlager BlizynBliżynFrom winter 1944Quarry, workshopsSeveral thousandDeutsche Ausruestungswerke (DAW), Ostidnustrie4.BKW LublinLublin, ul. Chełmska1941 – 1944Textile worksOver 200 prisonersBekleidungswerke Dachau – Aussenstelle Lublin, Ostindustrie5.BydzynBudzyń near KraśnikJune 1944 – January 1945Airplane parts1,000 prisonersHeinkel6.KL WarschauWarszawa, ul. GęsiaSince 1944Work commandos for Ghetto demolitionSeveral thousandOstdeutsche Tiefbau, Berlinische Baugeselschaft.7.SS-Polizeiführerkommando Sportsplatz ARC (6 July 2006), SS-Polizeiführerkommando Sportplatz, Aktion Reinhard, homepage.Lublin (Wieniawa), ul. OgródkowaSpring 1942 – Spring 1944Ghetto demolitionApprox. 120-600 prisonersSchutzstaffel (SS)8.StandorterwaltungskommandoLublin1942 – 1943Forced labour at SS garrisonUp to a hundredSchutzstaffel (SS)9.TrawnikiTrawnikiJesień 1942Bridge construction50 skilled workers/-/10.Sägewerkkommando PiaskiPiaski k. Lublina1943Lumber millDozensSS11.KommandoChełm1944SS WikingTwo dozenSS
See also Trawniki concentration camp Poniatowa concentration camp History of the Lublin Airport Lipowa camp of the Lublin Ghetto Subcamp (SS)
References
Państwowe Muzeum na Majdanku (The Majdanek State Museum) official website. Internet portal "KL Lublin" Towarzystwo Opieki nad Majdankiem – Oddział w Białymstoku (The Society for the Preservation of Majdanek) official website.