QUESTIONNAIRE
on camps
Township: Kielce
Commune: Kielce
District: Kielce
Voivodeship: Kielce
1. Name of the camp:
Detention room by Arbeitsamt
2. Location of the camp:
Kolejowa Street
3. Size of the camp:
Four-story building with a small courtyard.
4. Date of establishment of the camp:
1939
5. Date of closure of the camp:
1945
6. Were the prisoners only Poles, only Jews from Poland, or Poles and Jews from Poland?
Only Poles
7. Were there any foreigners in the camp (nationality, number)?
8. Average number of prisoners in the camp:
From a dozen to over a thousand people per day.
9. Total number of prisoners who passed through the camp during its period of operation:
10. What happened with the prisoners upon liquidation of the camp?
Some were deported for forced labor to Germany and some were forced to dig trenches.
11. Did the prisoners work in the camp? (types of work performed, types of workshops)
No
12. Did the prisoners work outside the camp? (types of work performed, locations)
No
13. How were the prisoners fed?
Sometimes they received dry provisions upon departure, that is a kilogram of bread.
14. Was there an infirmary or a hospital in the camp?
No
15. Where there any epidemics in the camp? (If yes, what kind)
No
16. Are data on the death rate in the camp available?
No
17. Were executions held at or outside the camp?
No
18. Were the corpses destroyed?
No
19. Was there a crematorium in the camp?
No
20. Was the burial site of the murdered victims determined?
–
21. Current condition of the camp – what was destroyed? What is located on the site of the camp?
Seat of the Polish Workers’ Party
22. Has any material evidence survived from the camp? (Type, place of storage, has it been secured?)
Probably some of the Arbeitsamt records are stored in the basements of its former seat. Currently the seat of the Polish Workers’ Party.
23. Are the surnames and, possibly, addresses of the people who had been imprisoned in the camp known?
No
24. Are the surnames of the Germans, the camp commander and other functionaries known?
Inspector Vogel, Superintendent Wätholt
On 6 October 1945, the contents of the above questionnaire were officially certified by Ludwika Bazylewska, acting on the authorization of the president of the city of Kielce, with the Municipal Court in Kielce.