Workshops, former industrial yard, early 1950s. Photo: Catherine Knittel.
©Private collection
The workshops were part of the prison complex but cordoned off with barbed wire. They included an automobile repair shop with garages, a carpentry workshop, a blacksmith workshop including a foundry and welding shop, a painting workshop, and multiple junk storage areas. To the right of the
During the initial months of the camp, inmates were used to clear and repair buildings. A number of them worked outside the camp on farms or in procuring wood. Later, only a small minority of the inmates were allowed to work.
