Station 9

The camp road leads from the middle of the roll-call area to the second largest section of the former concentration camp grounds, where the prisoner barracks used to be. When the camp was enlarged in 1937-38, prisoners were forced to build 34 barracks here, 17 on each side of the camp road. The two barracks seen at the beginning of the camp road have been reconstructed. The 32 additional barracks have since been demolished, and today are represented by gravel-filled cement markers, illustrating the size and placement of the original barracks.

The area’s present appearance no longer conveys the close and overcrowded conditions of confinement that once existed on the barrack grounds. The concentration camp had initially been built to contain approximately 6,000 prisoners, but was overfilled from the onset. By the end of 1944, over 30,000 people were imprisoned here, five times more than were originally intended.

You can enter the reconstructed barrack on the right. There, you will see a reconstruction of the living quarters as they existed in 1933-34, 1937-38 and 1944-45. On the right side of the camp road, an aerial photograph gives an impression of how densely the barracks compound was constructed. Numbered stones identify the location of each barrack.