Więźniowie OPW Brzeszcze w świetle sprawozdań i zestawień statystycznych z 1952 roku.

Abstract

The article discusses the aspects of functioning of inmate labour camps on the example to the camp organized in 1950 at the coal mine "Brzeszcze", in the area of the former sub-camp of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. In 1952,  in the peak period of Stalinism in Poland, the planned  exploitation of slave labour achieved its extreme. It is corroborated by ststistical materials provided by the authorities of the Brzeszcze camp to the Departament of Corrections.

The authoor of the article focuses on the details that picture the quality of life of  the inmates, the horribleliving conditions in overcrowded barracks, economic exploitation, indoctrination, invigilation and other forms of pressure that deepended the effect of enslavement.