 The camp, known as "SS-Arbeitslager Neu-Dachs" (often also called "SS-Lager Dachsgrube"), provided forced labor for the German war industry.Inmates were primarily employed in coal mining in Jaworzno, and in the construction of the power plant "Wilhelm" (renamed "Jaworzno I" after the war) for Albert Speer's company "EnergieVersorgung Oberschlesien AG" (EVO).Among the builders of the camp were British prisoners of war from the Stalag VIII-B at Lamsdorf (Łambinowice).