(German: Lagererweiterung)

A complex of 20 buildings erected in an area adjacent to Auschwitz I as part of plans for expanding the camp. These plans, only partially realized, envisioned more than 50 new buildings, including a new commandant’s office. The new buildings were used as temporary SS barracks, workshops, and storage facilities for property plundered from the Jews exterminated in the gas chambers. From May 1944, women prisoners were moved there from block 10 and the SS laundry, as well as women employed in the nearby Union‑Werke plant. At the end of 1944 there were three to four thousand women prisoners in the Lagererweiterung. The last public execution at Auschwitz was held there on January 6, 1945.

(Mini dictionary of terms from the history of Auschwitz)