"The first prisoners at Majdanek were Russian Prisoners of War, who were transferred from a barbed wire enclosure at Chelm. According to a book, Majdanek, by Jozef Marszalek, the prisoners at Majdanek were from 28 countries: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, the USSR, the United States of America, and Yugoslavia. He wrote that Polish citizens were 59.8% of the total, followed by citizens of the USSR at 19.8%, Czechoslovakia at 13.3%, the German Reich at 4% and France at 1.7%. All the other countries put together accounted for 1% of the total. There was a total of 54 ethnic groups represented, including 25 different ethnic groups from the Soviet Union and 4 ethnic groups from Yugoslavia. According to this book, the actual names of only 47,890 prisoners are known, including 7,441 women."

Mauthausen - A camp for men opened in August 1938 near Linz. Mauthausen was established to exploit nearby stone quarries; it was classified by the SS as a camp of utmost severity. The prisoners included Italian, French, Yugoslavian, and Spanish political prisoners; Jews from Czechoslovakia and the Netherlands (1941); Gypsies from Austria (1938-40); nearly 30,000 Polish prisoners; and thousands of Soviet prisoners of war. The total number of prisoners who passed through Mauthausen is about 200,000, of whom 119,000 perished. Mauthausen was liberated by the U.S. Army on May 5, 1945. Mauthausen Death Books, 1939-1945. Microfilm Publication T990. 2; Microfilm Research Room,
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12/15/04 Dear Olga,
Can you help me? I'm trying to locate information about my father,Tadeusz Lech-Bielinski, an artist who survived Stutthoff, Gusen and Matthausen by painting and sketching for the German guards. He came to Belgium as a displaced person. Between 1949 and 1952 he immigrated to Australia on assisted passage. I have looked through passenger lists available on the net without success. Lucy Elliott

Located between Göttingen and Hanover, Moringen was the first central concentration camp for women from October 1933 to March 1938. It became a concentration camp for juveniles from August 1940 to April 6, 1945, holding nearly 1,600 male juvenile prisoners aged 12-22 and sometimes younger. These children were arrested for: refusal to serve in the Hitler Youth; sabotage or refusal to work; criminality; membership in the Swing youth movement; homosexuality or prostitution; and political resistance (especially young partisans from the Slovenian-Austrian border region).

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Prisoner-of-War Camp from 1939-45 in Mühlberg/Elbe, Stalag IVB http://212.68.78.12/gfue/en/home/FMPro?-db=kontakte.fp5&-format=%2fgfue%2fbundesland%2fdetail.html&-lay=detail&-max=10&-recid=32&-token.0=search&-token.5=en&-findall=

Nazi recruiting poster Nazi poster recruiting Ukrainians to come work in Germany. It promises them peace and good working conditions.

A KZlager / concentration camp near Hamburg, Germany, opened in December 1938, initially as a satellite of Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Neuengamme became an independent camp in June 1940. British troops liberated Neuengamme on May 4, 1945. 2/20/06 Hey Olga,
I am forwarding to you a photo of the SS camp at Neuengamme which shows the factories in the background where the slave labours had to work. Kind regards, Holger See: Danish website by Holger B. Dybdahl Neuengamme memorial website in English

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A subcamp of Ravensbrück concentration camp that existed from September 1944 to May 1945, where prisoners were forced to work at the local airfield, in a Dornier airplane parts factory and preparing anti-tank ditches. The prisoners included Jewish, Greek, German, Hungarian, Polish female political prisoners, Russian, and Ukrainian political prisoners.

Hi Olga, just found your site, maybe you can help with some info. I have my father's Arbeitsbuch für Auslander. He was a Pole who spent the war years in Germany as a forced /slave labourer, Goslar is written in the book, dad worked in various factories, farms any info ????? I have also got his Arbeit's pass, Arbeitsamt Northeim, Nebenstelle Osterode, any info??? Also, PWX/DP Identity card with UNRRA # from 1947 - 1948. Dad never spoke much about the war years. Memories must have been painful. He died last year at 78. He never saw any of his family from 1939/40 until he died. Hope you can help, Frank Stec, England

Photo of two men sitting after liberation from Lager-Norhausen Death Camp http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/images/photodb/23-0473a.gif

The capital city is Düsseldorf. The largest city is Cologne. Other major cities are Essen, Dortmund, Duisburg, Oberhausen, Aachen, Bielefeld, Bonn, Bochum, Münster, Paderborn, Gelsenkirchen and Wuppertal.
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