Szczakowa

This last establishment, near the tiny village of Szczakowa, northwest of the historic city of Cracow, was the most desolate place that Fritz Haber had ever seen. A few miles away lay open fields that would become, half a century later, a brick-walled camp called Auschwitz. The village, Haber reported in a letter, consisted of little more than the factory, its buildings scattered across a desert of sand, marsh, and fever.. . . There is nothing here, nothing at all except monotony. 

Cement production on Polish Land increased quiekly after the year 1884, and its development lasted till 1914. With exeeption of the small faetory in Wejherowo, whieh was build in 1872, the remaining eement plants was ereeted after 1884 year— still in this year plant soka in Lazy, in 1885 Szezakowa in Szczakowa and... 

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