Slave labor in Nazi 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
The sad case of John Demjanjuk, and the accusations that
never quit. demjanjuk.html
Set up by the Soviets, the Jews and the Germans.
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
Wasseralfingen - US zone Krs.
Aalen (near Aalen town) - See Stuttgart archives
or Belgium Tracing Service
Kdo. Natzweiler,
Zivilianarbeiterlager (civilian
work camp)
Arbeitslager Weisendorf (death certificates), working for the subterranean
Kessler factory, established autumn 1944, 400 prisoners, closed 1945, prisoners
transferred to Dachau
Civilian work camp is also referenced as KoppenInlager (BNTB- See Belgium National
Tracing Bureau)
Civilian work camp Kappelberg, former PoW camp from 1943 for civilian workers
only with Ukrainians, French and Belgians
Camp Iranhalle
FA. SH. W: Sued-Lager Camp
Wiesendorf Lager Camp
Sportplatzlager (Sport place camp)
Zum Schlegel Lager Camp
Heneshaus Lager Camp
Zum Sand Lager Camp
Wattenscheid Nordrhein-Westfalen
Werdohl - civilian workers
camp
15, Jul 2010,
I am working on completing those papers you sent me so I can get their
immigration files. I am hoping there will be some information in there. Fortunately,
I have their alien cards, so I am hopeful that will speed the process.
Thank you so much for this information. I appreciate you taking
the time to research this. I was informed that VDM had factories in
Eveking (now known as Werdohl). On
my mother's arbeitskarte, it stated VDM Halbwerkzeug -- Eveking - so I am wondering
if there was a camp associated with that area. Many years ago, my mother
gave me Reichmarks and told me to hold on to them. I don't know whether
this was money she earned, or just the money she came here with, since I
know some civilian work camps paid their workers.
Thank you again for this information. It will help me as I continue to
research.
Sharon Miklas laffinbuda@gmail.com
Olga's reply: I have nothing in the book for Eveking. Werdohl had a civilian
work camp at Gemeinschafts lager (camp name) with 2324 persons,
Arbeitsamt Luedenscheid
Westfalen forced workers German text
Westerbrook Westerbrook
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
Wolfrathausen
Kdo. (Kommando) Dachau, Zivilarbeiterlager (Civil
work camp); US zone
2 miles S of Gelting, 3 miles east of Neufahrn
Lager Buchberg, worked with armament industry*, from
1940-45 600 workers, partly POW, partly civilian; write to mayor in Gelting
*Probably the armament plant, DSC, was situated in the fir forest of Foehrenwald,
within the triangle of Wolfrathausen, Gelting, and Neufahrn;
CC Kdo. Dachau had a smaller Kommando in the factory named SS Arbeiterlager
(work camp) Neufarn
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
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Difficult moments, seek God.
Quiet moments, worship God.
Painful moments, trust God.
Every moment, thank God.
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