A year later, the company ordered the construction of the first camp at Gusen.
The construction of the camp helped bring Cooke County out of the Great Depression by providing jobs.
A total of 4,750,000 bricks were used in construction of the camp.
Mr. McCall's aides said that none of the $68 million the state pension fund had invested in Israel had gone toward the construction of the camp.
He was thus one the first Auschwitz prisoners who were forced into the construction of the camp.
Many military people who moved in for construction and operation of the camp remained after the war.
The first prisoners, who arrived in 1943, had to finish the construction of the camp; it was used from January 1943 until September 1944.
An airstrip is cleared and a commission comes from Krasnoyarsk to grant approval, before the personnel are brought in and construction of the camp starts .
The works also determined that the via praetoria colonnade is a remnant of older structures and probably pre-dates the construction of the camp by a century.
Our first priority was construction of the camp itself, a task that had to be performed from the outside first.