Back to slave camps IntroRavensbruck
Concentration camp for women opened near Fürstenberg, 56 miles north of
Berlin, in May 1939. It was constructed on reclaimed swampland and built by
male prisoners from Sachsenhausen during the winter of 1938-1939. Designed
to hold 15,000 prisoners, Ravensbrück eventually held more than 120,000
women from 23 nations. It included a separate men's camp, a children's camp
at Uckermark, and, from January to April 1945, a killing center. It was liberated
by the Soviet Army in late April 1945.
"Many women had forced abortions, others lost their children after the pregnancy,
when the children where taken from them with violence. And if one got a child
from a German it could end in a barbarious treatment, where the walk with a bold
head through a city full of people, spitting and beating you. Rassenschande was
the name of the crime; the punishment could end in the KZ Ravensbrück as
a 'rabbit' (so did they call the women there!) on an operation-table without
any narcotics and a nazi-medical treatment." by C.
Maihoefer, / Germany, 2003
Jewish Women of Ravensbruck exhibitionReichsgauTerror im Reichsgau Steiermark 1938-1945Rheinwiesenhttp://www.rheinwiesenlager.de/Rheinwiesen.htm
RielingshausenRhein und Ruhr in Nordrhein-Westfalen
Rheydt in Nordrhein-Westfalen
Rosittenlager, Rosittenkasern, Pferdelazarett, Austria
Dear Olga,
A short while ago I came across a map of the town of Salzburg in Austria. I noted, that presently it also contains a streetname called "ROSITTENGASSE". When in the year of 1955 I left Salzburg to immigrate to the USA, there was only a place called Rosittenlager, which also was called Rosittenkaserne or also Pfrerdelazarett and was the residence of hundreds of displaced people of Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania and several other southeastern countries of Europe. These people had to flee the onrushing Russian Army due to their ethnic heritance going back as far as two hundred years at this time. But because they either had a gemanic sounding name or spoke a type of germanic dialect, they were endangerd, George HerzogSaarland see KZ Neue Bremm
Sachsen see Chemnitz, Freiberg, KZ Lichtenburg, Torgau
Sachsenhausen
Concentration camp for men opened in 1936. Located in Oranienburg, a suburb of Berlin and the site of an earlier "wild" concentration camp, Sachsenhausen was adjacent to the Inspectorate of the Concentration Camps. It held about 200,000 prisoners, of whom 100,000 perished. It was liberated by the Soviet army in late April 1945.
Stepan Bandera's wing of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-B) strongly denounced any proposals for the creation of the Galicia Division. Bandera's followers argued that the Nazis had crushed Ukrainian independence and that many members of the OUN-B had been arrested, deported to concentration camps or shot. Members of Bandera's underground cited how Stepan Bandera was currently confined at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, his two brothers had been imprisoned (and later executed) in the Auschwitz concentration
camp and other family members had been arrested and shot in the outskirts of
Lviv. "Besides", argued Bandera's followers, "the Nazis are going to lose this
war. So why should Ukrainians volunteer for a front-line combat division? What
do we get out of this? For more, see GALICIA DIVISION by Michael O. Logusz.Sande / Sandplatz
Dear Olga
Stadtarkhiv Wilhelmshaven has no info there about the repatriation of Soviet DPs from Sande but there is a crammed. Kreis Friesland district, book page entry about the history of some KL and Zwangsarbeiter camps in the Sande area, and about a local manufacturer, Heinrich Moller's sub-camp.
Some camp inmates were civilian / political deportees, most were forced labourers. Local cemetery has 69 forced labourers of various nationalities...Soviet, Czech, Polish, Norwegian, Polish, Belgian but the numbers of labourers etc who died and are buried locally is not known. On or near the site of the original barracks, a post-war REFUGEES' camp was built. The Arkhiv has no knowledge of, or no info about, a camp place-name SANDPLATZ. I will look out the original Canadian refs...am sure they referred to Wilhelmshaven and to the local Canadian General Hospital No.7. Arkhivist says (?) that there was a Sandplatz in or near Oldenburg. Be good...AlanSandbostelSandbostel Documentation and Memorial Museum The Stalag X B Sandbostel, with over one million prisoners, is one of the largest prisoner of war camps. Shortly before the war`s end, another 10,000 prisoners arrive from the Neuengamme Concentration Camp and satellite camps. It is estimated that between 10,000 (German figure) and 50,000 (Soviet figure) people died in the Stalag X B and its environs.
Between 1939 and '45, more than 1 Million POWs out of 46 nations were imprisoned in Sandbostel. An exerpt from the diary of Elfie Walter:
"May 3rd: "Today I did work really hard. Very tired. Don't want to write much. Food only barley soup, no bread, nothing else.
Today, we did receive the first ill prisoners. British trucks and Red-Cross-cars brought them. They lay on stretchers. Virtually one only saw shaven heads. Everything else was so flat, so thin! Those are skeletons! 70 to 90 pounds they weigh, a medical orderly said.
Till now, they are only men: Poles, Russians, but also Dutchmen, Belgians, Spaniards, Greeks, Jews, Gypsies, Rumanians, Hungarians. Some doctors and studied men are among them. They've got typhoid, spotted fever, dysentery, tuberculosis, gangrenous limbs, open and suppurating wounds, in which the rotten bandages can still be found. They lie completely apathic.
First they have to be disinfected. Some of us are put to this work." http://www.dokumentationsstaette-sandbostel.de/englisch/walter.htm
about the camp and cemetary: http://www.dokumentationsstaette-sandbostel.de/englisch/campplan.htm
Number of prisoners at Stalag X B, incl. Detached Camps; Table uses numbers given in a German Army report (with nationality breakdown): http://www.dokumentationsstaette-sandbostel.de/englisch/plan.htm
9/24/05
I have a painting, which I think may have been done by a POW. It is signed K. Sprafke - 30.12.45 - Sandbostel.
I would be very happy, if this POW has family, to send this to them.
Catharine McCallion, Scotland
Morton Hotels Tel: 01667 493412
Email:
catharinemccallion@morton-hotels.com
Dear webmaster of Displaced persons' camps,
The German local population and the local authorities aren't really concerned about the decay of the former POW and concentration camp Sandbostel. They feel any money spend on the restauration of the camp is wasted.
Former victims and their famlies who want to visit the campsite are threatened and even forced off the campgrounds, which are owned by local businesses.
The German historian, Dr. Klaus Volland, and some volunteers seem to be the only ones who really care about the victims, their families and the campsite.
He would like to build a memorial on the former campsite, but his struggle seems in vain. Because of that the webmaster of http://ww2.klup.info and http://holocaust.klup.info created a petition to support Dr. Volland in his struggle to build the memorial.
Therefore, we need your help! Together we might be able to help him and his staff to convince the authorities and the locals that the former campsite of Sandbostel is important and should be kept for the future, so no one will forget what has happened in camps like Sandbostel.
The Dutch press has already noticed the petition and a regional newspaper has published an article on it. Several other webmasters support the petition and placed the petition on there websites.
We would like to ask you to place a link to our petition on your website and see what you're able to do to support our petition. Together we might be able to help Dr. Volland!
The petition link is: http://www.ipetitions.com/campaigns/KZ/ or found at: http://www.oktober44.nl
The newspaper article can be found at: http://www.destentor.nl/regioportal/STN/1,3112,12476-Veluwe-Nieuws!Regio!__2076844_,00.html Best regards,
John SoetersSchwerte SenneStalag 326 (VI K) Senne Documentation Center Sponsor Association Prisoner of war camp (Stalag 326 VI K); As many as 65,000 (mostly Soviet) soldiers are estimated to have died there.Sindelfingen
http://www.sindelfingen.de/publ/main.do?id=5412&navItemId=stadtarchiv Archive: Tel.: 07031/94-394 oder 07031/94-212 Fax: 07031/94-676
E-Mail: Archiv@Sindelfingen.deCity hall: Stadt Sindelfingen
Rathausplatz 1
71063 Sindelfingen
Tel: 07031-94-0
E-Mail: stadt@sindelfingen.de
postal address: Stadt Sindelfingen
Postfach 180
71043 Sindelfingen
website:http://www.sindelfingen.de/
9/26/04 Kudos! It is great to find your website and your work is appreciated.
Can you tell me where I would find the D.P. camp my father was born in after
the war? I was told it was in Stingelfingen, Germany. Would records exist that
can be accessed online of the births in this D. P. camp?
They were in the Polish underground ... where my father was purportedly born.
My great-grandfather (last name Molin had a bus company) was picked up for helping
the underground and died or was killed in a concentration camp but I don't know
which one. (Though they went to Oswiecim, it is thought they were moved to some
other camp.) He & his brother married two sisters. His brother and his brother's wife (my great-grandmother's sister) were also killed in the concentration camp.
So my grandparents didn't use their real names (Klus & Molin) but got phoney
papers (Dymny) when their group were encamped in the woods. Their home town was
Cieszyn. I am curious to know the truth. I certainly do thank you very much for
your reply. ~ Curious CanadianOld cemetery - An oasis of the peace in the midst of the city centre is since 1825 old persons put on the cemetery behind the municipal library. Located at the north side of the cemetery planted with crosses over 400 buried, who died during the Second World War as soldiers or in air raids. Likewise boards and graves remind of the victims of the LV terror in Sindelfingen (a namentliche board is at the new city hall) and of the fate over 3000 of the forced laborers, who were working here during the war.Sinti
The predominant populace of Gypsies residing in Central Europe, especially in Germany.
The situation of Roma in Germany German text Sirez, Kiev, Ukraine
"Near Babiy Yar, the fascists built a concentration camp that was called Sirez.
It was the place where the Nazi kept their captives and forced them to work before
murder. Those who managed to survive after the Sirez recall that they had to
live in inhuman conditions. Every evening all the concentration camp prisoners
had to align on the square, and each fifth or each tenth was shot. If someone
managed to escape from the camp, each third captive was murdered. The hospital
of the camp was full of ill, weak, bleeding and exhausted people. When it became
too crowded, the Nazi removed the patients from the hospital and shot. Every
day the Sirez was filled up with new victims. Some of them after a few weeks
or months of living in the concentration camp were taken to Babiy Yar, where
they were shot or just covered with earth. Small groups of people were put to
the basket of the car that functioned so that the gas evaporations penetrated
into the basket and people died of asphyxiation. Later the captives were forced
to disinter the corpses, which were then burnt in the ovens made of old Jewish
tombstones. The ash of burnt people was used as a fertilizer for German fields.
The camp prisoners were suffering malicious insults; they lived and dyed in horrible
conditions." For more info: http://www.kiev.info/culture/babiy_yar.htm
Sobibor Death campSolingen in Nordrhein-Westfalen
Solms
Stade
StettinStruthof, France
Also known as Natzweiler-Struthof, this concentration camp for men was established in May 1941 near Strasbourg in German-occupied France to hold prisoners from the occupied western European countries. Natzweiler and its surrounding subcamps held approximately 19,000 prisoners by the end of the war.Stutthof
Located 25 miles east of Gdansk (Danzig), established on September 2,1939 as a prison camp for Polish men, since January 1941 also a forced labor camp for women. Since January 1942, Stutthof was a concentration camp with a complex of 146 subsidiary camps for prisoners from all over Nazi-occupied Europe. Conditions were extremely harsh. In summer 1944, mass murder by gassing began. A total number of 115,000 men, women and children were registered in Stutthof when evacuation and death marches began in January 1945. Less than 50,000 survived. The Soviet Army liberated Stutthof in April 1945.
In case anyone has a DP query relating to Soviet military HQ in Warsaw...your Stuthof Concentration Camp main correspondent gives the following info tref 1945 et passim .. 'the headquarters of Russian Security located in the building of the Directorate of the Wilenska Railway Station on the corner of Targowa and Wilenska streets'. Alan Newark / Scotland
"It was also the last camp liberated by the Allies, on May 9, 1945.
The Nazi authorities of the Free City of Danzig were compiling material about
known Jews as early as 1936, and also reviewing suitable places to build concentration
camps in their area. The first prisoners were 150 Jewish Danzig citizens. Prisoners
from other countries along the Baltic Sea were transported there in 1944. A large
number of people have perished of hunger and frost on the roads and by British
bombardment of refugee ships, during the Soviet conquest of eastern Germany.
Stutthof was not mentioned in the Nuremberg trials.The inmate population rose
to 6,000 in the following two weeks, on September 15, 1939, The "old camp" comprised
eight barracks for the inmates and a "kommandantur" for the SS guards, totalling
12 ha. In 1942, a "new camp" was built with 30 new barracks, raising the total
area to 120 ha. A crematory and gas chamber were added in 1943, just in time
to start mass executions when Stutthof was included on the "Endlung" on June
1944. Mobile gas wagons were also used to complement the maximum capacity of
the gas chamber (150 people per execution) when needed. There were 115,000 to
127,000 inmates interned at Stutthof from 1939 until its liberation by the Soviet
army, with a total number of dead somewhere between 65,000 and 85,000 people,
with 22,500 more that were moved to other camps as the Allied forces approached.These
totals are thought to be conservative, as it is believed that inmates sent for
immediate execution were not registered. The former prisoner of Stutthoff and
Lithuanian writer Balys Sruoga wrote afterall a novel Diev? mi?kas (The
Forest of Gods) describing the everyday life of this camp." from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stutthof
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