Slave labor in Concentration Camps in Germany

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Torgau
Trassenheide
Traunstein
Treblinka Death camp
    Killing center on the Bug River northeast of Warsaw in the General Government (occupied Poland). Opened in July 1942, Treblinka was the largest of the three killing centers of Operation Reinhard. Between 700,000 and 860,000 Jews and several thousand Gypsies were killed there. A revolt of the inmates on August 2, 1943 destroyed most of the camp, and it was closed in November 1943. Photos: http://www.klub-beskid.com/album-pologne/thumbnails.php?album=22
Trutzhain-Schwalmstadt Museum and Memorial site The Ziegenhain prisoner of war camp Stalag IX A is in operation. In 1944 the camp contains 50,000 prisoners. They are forced to work as slave laborers in the 2,000 work commandos.
Unterluss
    Dear Olga, I was born in a DP camp in Hannover. Lager Kosciuszko, under the British. My father worked for UNRRA distributing food after being released for a forced labor camp at Unterluss. Any help you can give would be very much appreciated. Sophie Knab
Volpriehausen
Wanne-Eickel Nordrhein-Westfalen
Wattenscheid Nordrhein-Westfalen
Westfalen forced workers German text
WesterbrookWesterbrook Memorial Jewish photos
Wewelsburg KZ Nordrhein-Westfalen
Wiesbaden
Wilhelmshaven-Mariensiel
    Ulrich Racker-Wellnitz
    c/o Stadt Wilhelmshaven
    Der Oberburgermeister
    Kommmunikation & koordination Stadtarchiv
    Rathausplatz1
    26382 Wilhelmshaven
    Deutschland -Germany
    Tel: code + 04421 16
    Fax: code + 04421 16 1158
    E-mail: stadtarchiv@stadt.wilhelmshaven.de Site of main forced labour camp in W'haven was linked to Naval Artillery works. Large Soviet labour force.
    See: http://www.relikte.com/whv-artars/index.htm
    I have included a map of the Wilhelmshaven Marineartilleriearsenal camp. There were other camps, Lager Neufeld, and a particular factory-based sub-camp, in the Wilhemshaven area. The above addresses are from a letter sent to me by the City of Wilhelmshaven Archivist which includes an e-mail address. I have other information about the Sande, Wilhelmshaven, labour camp. After the war, it housed Soviet soldiers and, possibly, civilians, being held in transit, and often involuntarily so, to the USSR. During the war the camp held Dutch, Belgian, French, Polish and other inmates. Besten. Alan Newark Leeds, UK
Wildeshausen, Lubeck
    3/6/05 Dear Olga, I found this testimony on a website of a British Veteran:
      "On 10th April, just outside Wildeshausen, Lubeck, the Rifle Brigade captured a large German hospital in the pine wood with 200 patients. During the night they were mortared, and infantry and self-propelled guns appeared and when morning broke, the patients and staff had vanished ."
    I'm searching information about my mother's past as a German Red Cross nurse. She was Hungarian and incorporated in a Hungarian field hospital. This hospital withdrew with the German army all the way to Stalag XI B. She was among the sanitary personal who took part in the evacuation of the field hospital few days before the liberators reached the Stalag. I know that she was captured by the American army. I have her POW # (probably the only real information in my possession). Soon after she was involved in the UNRRA activities as nurse. I don't know how long she stayed in Germany as a DP, but she probably stayed in Travemunde, Lubeck or Hamburg. Can anybody help me with additional information about this event, or direct my research? My mother passed away 6 months ago. She would never talk about her past. Thank you in advance for the slightest help. Marija
Wolfsburg
Women in slave labor: http://lightning-and-ashes.blogspot.com/2007/10/tell-them-we-werent-only-ones.html by John Guzlowski
Wuppertal Nordrhein-Westfalen
Zeithain Memorial Museum Zeithain Construction begins of the Zeithain prisoners of war camp in preparation of the German attack on the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941. The first transport of Soviet prisoners of war arrives at the Jacobsthal train station near the camp. The camp is a branch of the Stalg IV B Mühlberg / Elbe. The Zeithain prisoner of war camp is converted into as a reserve hospital, in which mostly prisoners of war with tuberculosis are held.
Zwingenberg
Some of the above information provided by Fördergesellschaft Kulturelle Bildung e.V.
info@kulturelle-bildung.de More glossary
There were 20,000 German slave labor campsIf you haven't found your camp named listed in the first page, try these sites:
    Nazi concentration camps Das Lagersystem der Nazis. The Camp system of the Nazis (in German) and English version pdf, 2,500 companies in the slave labor system of 20,000 camps with 10-12 million slave laborers Unnamed camp with piles of dead people from FDR library Horror of War, Forget Me Not by Olga Prohnitchi World War II Places home page
    Virtual Library Museum, website in German Forced workers, website in German Nazi & Soviet documents for sale German companies participating in slave labor Marc Terrance photographs concentration camps Slovakia - death of a slave labourer Forgotten Camps, mostly Jewish research Slave labor links in German
The following sites which describe the Ostarbeiter (worker's from the East) program may be helpful to some Ukrainian researchers:
    Ukrainian Bar Association Infoukes history of Ostarbeiter Lavrentiy Krupniak
Labour camps Klup site
Check out book: DAS NATIONALSOZIALISTISCHE LAGERSYSTEM by Martin Weinmann and published in Frankfurt am Main in 1990.
F. Weiss, Library
Holocaust Memorial Center
6602 W. Maple Rd.; West Bloomfield, MI 48322
(248)661-0840; fax: (248)661-4204
e-mail: info@holocaustcenter.org http://holocaustcenter.org
In the following websites is a comparison: Some starved others were treated better.
    John Guzlowski's poem about his dad, called "Hunger in the Labor Camps" along with his innoculation papers from 1951. The ones who were more valuable to the system were better treated: Lagergeld Used to Pay Prisoners for Their Work By Jennifer White
    Happy moments, praise God.
    Difficult moments, seek God.
    Quiet moments, worship God.
    Painful moments, trust God.
    Every moment, thank God.
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