The camp contained 25 barracks within 10 acres (4.0 ha) and was surrounded by a 4 metres (13 ft) concrete wall.

SS would periodically conduct selections of prisoners; those deemed incapable of work were deported to Auschwitz II-Birkenau, where many of them were killed.

Prisoners had to work on construction tasks, such as excavation, building structures, and pulling wagons in place of horses or tractors.

After the nearby Hydrierwerke plant was bombed, Jewish prisoners were forced to sort out unexploded ordnance, during which many died.

The soldiers first vandalized the abandoned SS office at the camp; then they went inside and began to shoot incapacitated prisoners in the infirmary.

It was not the only incident in which SS returned to an abandoned camp in order to kill the remaining prisoners; a similar massacre occurred at Tschechowitz-Vacuum, another subcamp of Auschwitz.