Zgoda labour camp

Zgoda (Polish pronunciation: [ˈzɡɔda]) was a concentration camp established in February 1945 in the Zgoda district of Świętochłowice, Silesia. It was controlled by Poland's Ministry of Public Security (secret police) until its closure in November the same year.

During World War II, between 1943 and January 1945, the camp in Świętochłowice had been operated by Nazi Germany as an Arbeitslager – a labor subcamp (Arbeitslager Eintrachtshütte) or Eintrachthütte concentration camp – of the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp. After the NKVD's transfer of the facility to Poland's Ministry of Public Security, Colonel Salomon Morel had become commander of the renamed Zgoda camp on 15 March 1945.

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