List of subcamps of Kauen

From 1943, the SS operated 17 subcamps of the Kauen concentration camp. In approximate order of date of starting, these were:


 * Schaulen (Lithuanian Šiauliai), airfield - from March 1943 supported as an external command of the Schaulen concentration camp subcamp. (ghetto)


 * Akmené, Jewish forced labor camp, chalk factory.


 * Vilna (Lithuanian: Vilnius), Lukiškės Gestapo prison.


 * Vilna (Vilnius), Kailis fur factory – September 16, 1943 to July 3, 1944. 1000 to 1500 Jewish workers, most were shot in Aukštieji Paneriai.


 * Vilna (Vilnius), Army Vehicle Fleet 562 - beginning on September 17, 1943, from November this was an official concentration camp subcamp of the Kauen concentration camp, continuing until July 1944, when around 500 concentration camp prisoners, and more, were brought to Aukštieji Paneriai to be murdered and shot - only around 250 survived. The camp was on Subocz Street, where a monument to the concentration camp subcamp has stood since 1993.


 * Vilna (Vilnius), hospital - About 80 Jews worked here from September 1943 until the shootings in Aukštieji Paneriai and Ninth Fort in July 1944.


 * Daugeliai, Jewish forced labor camp, brick factory – September 27, 1943 until deportation to Stutthof concentration camp in mid-July 1944. Around 250 men from the Schaulen concentration camp subcamp worked here.


 * Kauen-Petraschunai (Kaunas- Petrašiūnai)


 * Linkaičiai - operated from the end of September 1943 until deportation to the Stutthof concentration camp in mid-July 1944. About 80 Jewish men and women.

With the advance of the Red Army, while some of the earlier nine concentration camp subcamps continued in use, eight of the Kauen subcamps were closed in July 1944.


 * Kauen-Alexoten (Lithuanian: Kaunas- Aleksotas) – Opened November 30, 1943 until the camp was evacuated on July 12, 1944. Male prisoners were deployed at Schichau-Werke, Elbing to work in the anti-aircraft repair workshop.


 * Kauen-Schanzen (Kaunas- Šančiai) - Opened December 16, 1943 and evacuated on July 12, 1944. Deployment of female prisoners at the Army Catering Office Magazine, the Army Clothing Office, the Army Motor Vehicle Park, the Army Construction Site, at the Kauen Motor Post Office and other locations.


 * Kazlu Ruda, (Kazlų Rūda) – 1944 to summer 1944. Women working on peat; also a men's camp.


 * Kedahnen (Kėdainiai) – evacuation in July 1944. Work at the airfield.


 * Koschedaren (Kaišiadorys) – Opened in December 1943 until evacuation in July 1944. The prisoners were set to work on peat and forest operations.


 * Kauen- Palemonas – Opened around the end of November to December 1943, with evacuation by ship to Germany on July 7, 1944. Men's camp.


 * Prawienisken (Pravieniškės) – Opened in November 1943 and closed on May 15, 1944. Men's and one women's camp, forest work. Before that, there was a forced labor camp for Jews in the same place.


 * Schaulen (Šiauliai) - The Schaulen ghetto was transformed into a concentration camp subcamp used from the time it was taken over by the SS on September 18, 1943, until evacuation to the Stutthof concentration camp on July 15, 1944, from there to the Dachau concentration camp, Kaufering subcamp complex on July 21, 1944. A transport of women and children from Kauen and the Schaulen subcamp went from Stutthof to Auschwitz on July 26, 1944.