 Some of them were German military POWs (members of the "Waffen-SS" were interned separately from the rest) and the Nazi collaborators from all over Poland, but most were local Germans from German Upper Silesia, Germans from Polish Polish Upper Silesia, and Silesian civilians from Jaworzno, the nearby Chrzanów, and elsewhere; they included women and children.There were also ethnic Poles who were arrested for their opposition to Stalinism, including members of the Polish non-communist resistance organizations AK and BCh, and later the anti-communist organization WiN.The camp for Germans was run until 1949, when the last of the were allowed to leave and emigrate from their home region to post-war Germany.