The Zgoda labour camp was a concentration camp for Silesians, Germans, and Poles, set up in 1945 by the Soviet NKVD in Świętochłowice, Silesia. It was controlled by the communist secret police until its closure by the Stalinist authorities of Poland in November of the same year.
Between 1943 and January 1945 during World War II, the camp in Świętochłowice operated as German Nazi Arbeitslager. It was a labour subcamp (Arbeitslager Eintrachtshütte) or the Eintrachthütte concentration camp of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz. After the NKVD transfer of the facility to MBP, Jewish Colonel Salomon Morel (age 26, with no relevant training) became the commander of the renamed Zgoda camp on 15 March 1945.
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