Halemba Power Station (Polish: Elektrownia Halemba) is a coal-fueled power plant in Ruda Śląska Silesian Voivodeship Poland.The construction of the plant begun in 1943 organized by Nazi German administration of occupied Poland and using forced labor from Auschwitz Concentration Camp. After the war the plant was finished by the authorities in the People’s Republic of Poland and started operation in 1962. Since 2006 it has reduced operation and was decommissioned on 1 April 2012.
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