Alphabetical List of camps firmen_lager.xls
Hahn
4/1/06 Dear Mrs. Kaczmar!
We try to find out more informations about Lager Hahn which is near the town, we live now. On the graveyard near our church there are many graves - most of them from little children that died in the lager Hahn, Bockhorn, Sande, Delmenhorst, Westerstede, Adelheide ...
We are looking for people who can tell us about the life in such a lager, the circumstances - any informations. Could you please help us? We are looking forward to an answer.
Werner Zihn and Rita Kusch, Email: RitaKusch@web.de
Hamburg - see Bergedorf, KZ Fuhlsbüttel, KZ Neuengamme
Hameln
City archive: http://www.hameln.com
Silke Schulte, Tel. (0 51 51) 2 02-4 39
Jonas Eberhardt, Tel. (0 51 51) 2 02-3 39
Fax: (0 51 51) 2 02-6 51
Email: stadtarchiv@hameln.de
Street address: Osterstrasse 2 (Hochzeitshaus), 31785 Hameln
PO Box / Postanschrift: Postfach, 31784 Hameln
Stadt Hameln
Lord Mayor
Rathausplatz 1
D-31785 Hameln
Germany
Tel.: ++49 (0 51 51) 2 02-0
Fax: ++49 (0 51 51) 2 02-5 69
Email: rathaus@hameln.de
http://www.hameln.de/index.html
Handewitt - Krs. Flensburg, British Zone, 4 miles W. of Flensburg
Civilian Workers' Camp
Hänigsen - The army ammunition depot (Bw) Hänigsen
Google translate
After the discovery of extensive Kailvorkommen is in 1905 with the establishment of the mine "Riedel" north of the village Hänigsen, begun in 1909 took the work on the promotion.
In 1938 the armed forces of the bay area built within 2 km north an ammunition manufacturing facility, the name was "Heeresmuna forest camp". Halfway between the areas of a camp for workers in the ammunition factory, the "Camp Celler Way" was born. . The production area and the pit were connected to each other via the sidings In the above-ground production area cartridges are filled and was completed projectiles. In The Bay "Riedel" has blown up on the 650 m and the 750 m level numerous ammunition chambers in the rock. Here the ammunition produced has been incorporated since 1941. The production facilities were later also moved into the tunnels because of the hazards caused by Allied bombing. From 1944, the Wehrmacht has also deposited underground warfare agent munitions.
In April 1945, Allied troops occupied the operating parts of the Muna Hänigsen.
As of 1945:After the war, the British began the demilitarization and removal of Muna. The 76th Depot Control Company was responsible for the recovery of the stored ordnance, it was with the same duties for the ammunition institutions (Bw) Godenau and Volpriehausen active.
Condition:In the area of the shaft "Riedel" some historic buildings have been preserved in good condition. In the production area, most buildings are still there, but some expire rapidly. The former "labor camp Celler Way" still has well-preserved massive barracks.
Submitted by: Alan Newark Scotland
Hannover
Heilbronn
Heiligenbeil - Heiligenbeil was a subcamp of the German concentration camp Stutthof near Danzig during the Third Reich.
10/31/04 Olga,
Hi I am hoping you will be able to help point me in the right direction. We
are trying to find out about my husband's late father's life. We know very
little of his past prior to coming to England for obvious reasons. He was
Ukrainian and born in Kolomyja. We have what we believe is an identity
card and the last address on it puts him at Heiligenbeil, which
we understand is a sub camp of Stutthof. We know that he was in Rimini
Italy after the War and we are wondering if he would have been in the DP
camp. His name was Stefan Czornenkyj. I would be so grateful if you could
point us in the right direction. Thank you for your great work. Julie
Czornenkyj /
UK, stewart@desouza4443.fsnet.co.uk
Helmbrechts
Submitted by: Alan Newark braveheart56200@yahoo.com
1945 On 11 and 12 April: strafing attacks on 15 April: evacuation of the camp outside Flossenbuerg, invasion of the U.S. armed forces
The concentration-camp Helmbrechts in August 1944 was a
related, wooden barracks existing camp for female prisoners, the Ravensbruck concentration
camp, and shortly after the initial occupancy of the Flossenbürg assumed.
The later 1000 and had to inmates in the halls of the textile company, Witt
forced labor for the Neumeyer Cable and metal from Nuremberg to afford.
On 13 April 1945, the death march instead of a total of 1175 prisoners by heath
over farm and maple mountain after Schwarzenbach an der Saale (also
see Memorial Long course ) and then Neuhausen near Rehau, Franzensbad , Marienbad,
plan and dew in the Bohemian Wallern led. Over 200 women died of exhaustion
or were murdered. (Computer translated.)
http://de.wikipedia.org
Hermann Goerring #9
My father was 12 years old and living in Kremenitz, Ukraine during the Nazi occupation, after the invasion of Poland in 1939. On a Saturday he and some friends decided to attend a movie in town. Midway through the movie, the lights came up and a Nazi officer announced that all able bodied men (12 and over) were to be put into a truck. They were then taken to different Nazi Labor Camps; my father was taken to Hermann Goerring number 9. He was forced to stay there until the liberation by the United States. Faced with being repatriated to Ukraine and falling under the worse evil (The Soviets), luckily he was able to speak Polish (and taught others to speak a little so they could stay) and was placed in a Displaced Persons camp in West Germany until 1950 when he was able to immigrate to the United States. George buder@knology.net
Herzberg
There is a prisoner list and death register for Herzberg Concentration Camp (KZ lager)
Thank you for your friendly inquiry about the Ukrainian
prisoners in KZ lager Hersbruck. Since beginning our data base in 2000,
it contains over 90,000 names, 90% of the arrested persons in the KZ. Ukrainian
prisoners are mostly noted as "'Russian' prisoners in the documents of the SS. Unfortunately, it is not possible to call up an exact number. A very incomplete search result calls a number of over 1,100 prisoners from the Soviet Union for Hersbruck. Of these, only three are registered as Ukrainian. With at least 21 further we assume are of Ukrainian origin (for instance because of first names like "Petro" or "Grizko").
The correct number is surely substantially more highly. Extensive evaluations
(places of birth, last residences) would have to be carried out to
find more. We are sorry that we cannot give more exact information to you.
Johannes Ibel
Häftlingsdatenbank
Tel. +49-(0)9603-921982
Email: jibel@gedenkstaette-flossenbuerg.de
KZ-Gedenksätte (Concentation camp memorial) Flossenberg
Gedächtnisallee 5 - 7
92696 Â Flossenberg
GERMANY
Tel. +49-(0)9603-921980
Fax +49-(0)9603-921990
Email: information@gedenkstaette-flossenbuerg.de
Internet: http://www.gedenkstaette-flossenbuerg.de
Hessen - See Allgemein, Darmstadt, Dreieich, Frankenberg (Eder), Giessen, Hofgeismar, Kassel, Korbach, KZ Lichtenau, Marburg, Offenbach, KZ-Osthofen, Sand, Solms, Wiesbaden
Herford - Nordrhein Westfalen
Herne Nordrhein-Westfalen
Heuberg by Stetten
8/24/05
I found your site when researching my family history and found it very helpful.
A member of my family who now lives in Ulm says she was taken to "Kalten Markt in the former concentration camp at Heuberg by Stetten." Do
you have any information about this camp? I believe it was in the French zone.
Thank you in advance for your assistance. Marcia Heit, USA
Hildescheim
Hinzert - Collection point and subcamp; July 1940 - March 1945; est. prisoners 14,000; est. deaths min. 302; see http://www.hinzert.de/
Hoffnungsthal
Hoffnungsthal, Prisoner of War Camp in the Stephanus Chapel 1940-1945, The grounds on the edge of the Cologne/Bonn airport is used as a prisoner of war camp.
Hofgeismar
Hohenzollen
My mother spent the entire war as a forced labourer on a German farm in Hohenzollen,
doing manual farm work as well as housekeeping, cooking and taking care of
the invalid wife of the farmer. She said the work was extremely hard but
that didnÕt worry her she was used to hard
work. She was 19 when taken away from her child, her family, and her homeland, everything
she held near and dear. She didn't know the language and was scared. After the war she met
my father who was still in his concentration camp stripes, bald, nothing but skin and bone.
They decided to make a life together. From 1945 - 1946 They stayed at various DP camps in
Germany. My father is not forthcoming with any information. He just said, "I
want to forget." Maria Nolan / Australia
Homberg, near Duisburg
Jan 27, 2008 Hello
Olga,
My mother,
Anna Dunec, was taken from her home in Orihivka, Ukraine in 1943 to work
as a slave labourer (Ostarbeiter) in Germany when she was 17. She worked
in Homberg (near Duisburg) but escaped after that city
was bombed by the Americans in 1944. She made her way with two friends
to Kapellen (near Moers) where she found work on a farm with a very good
German family who looked after her. (after mum escaped from Duisburg she
changed her name to Eugenia Majewska.) She met dad, Mikolaj Ilyk, at Kapellen
after the Americans arrived and they were all taken to a camp in Ratingen. They finally emigrated to Australia in 1949 on the Fairsea.
Is it possible to get any more information about parent's stay in Germany?
Peter Ilyk ilyk@grapevine.com.au
Homosexuals
Persecuted in Nazi Germany,
homosexuals were affected by police raids and arrests after 1933. More systematic
persecution occurred after 1935 under paragraph 175 of the German penal code.
Arrest statistics for homosexuals jailed in Nazi Germany range from a low
of 5,000 to a high of 40,000. Many German homosexuals were sent to concentration
camps and forced labor camps, where they were vulnerable to brutal medical
experiments, castration, and sterilization; in the camps they were marked
by a pink triangle. Although their mortality rate is not fully known, it
is believed that several hundred probably perished in the camps. The Nazis
did not try to kill all homosexuals but tried to "convert them for procreation." There
is no evidence of any arrests of lesbians in Nazi Germany.
Hummelshain - https://walpersberg.de
Nursing home/Bauernschule
Husum (Krs. Husum British Zoe
CC Kdo of Neuengamme,See Schwesing
Prison: Gerichtsgefaengnis, Theodor-Storm Strasse 5
Civilian Workers Camp: Gemeinschaftslager Bahnmeisterei Husum, 300 persons
Ingolstadt
Itzehoe
prison: Landgerichtsgefaengnis Bergstrasse 5 (34 former prisoners)
civilian work camps:
Pumpenfabrik (pump factory) Siemens & Hinsch, Lager Camp Fuchsberg 150 persons
Alsenische Portlandzementfabriken (Portland Cement Factory), Lager Camp Schulenburg, 130 persons
Sauerkohlfabrik Hengstenberg, Lager Camp Leuenkamp, 100 women (info from Ministry of Labour, Schlewig Holstein).
Jagersdorf - https:www.walpersberg.de
Janowska death camp (1941-1943), was in Lwow, Poland, now Lviv, Ukraine.
A Toronto survivor of the Janowska Camp told FORUM that there were about 10,000 people in the camp at one time of which about 3,000 were Ukrainians and Poles.
From Wikipedia: In October 1941, the Nazis established a concentration camp beside the factory, which housed the forced laborers. Thousands of Jews from the Lwow ghetto were forced to work as slave laborers in this camp. When the Lwow ghetto was liquidated by the Nazis, the ghetto's inhabitants who were fit for work were sent to the Janowska camp; the rest were deported to the Belzec camp for extermination. The following pages only cover the Jewish slave labor:
http://en.wikipedia.org
http://www.death-camps.org
http://death-camps.org
Jehovah's Witnesses
This religion was founded in the United States with about 20,000- 30,000 members in Germany by the late 1920s. As a matter of religious belief, Witnesses refused to use the Hitler salute, salute the swastika flag, bear arms in war, or participate in the affairs of government or the war effort. The Witnesses were banned and their presses confiscated in 1933.
After 1935, many Witnesses lost jobs, homes, businesses, and pensions because they won't give the Heil Hitler salute. They were viewed as enemies of the state, arrested, imprisoned in concentration camps, and marked with a purple-colored triangle. More than 900 Witness children, who refused to join the Hitler Youth, were involuntarily removed from parental custody to Nazi penal institutions and juvenile homes.
About 10,000 Witnesses from Germany, Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, the Netherlands, Norway, and Poland were arrested and deported to various concentration camps; between 2,500 and 5,000 died in Auschwitz, Berlin-Plozensee, Brandenburg prison, Dachau, Esterwegen Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Hamburg prison, Mauthausen, Neuegamme, Sachsenhausen, Ravensbrück, Wewelsburg and other camps. More than 250 Witnesses were executed for refusing to serve in the German military.
In the concentration camps, they were beaten and fed only a slice of bread in the morning and thin watery soup in the evening. Other punishments included hanging from a pole with your hands tied behind you and being put outside soaking wet in the frigid below freezing cold weather. They could have been given their freedom if they would renounce their faith. Few did. Many spent 10 years in confinement. They were allowed to write to outsiders only 3 or 4 sentences. Afraid that they were spreading their faith to other prisons, anyone talking to them were gien 25 strokes.
Video: "Jehovah's Witnesses Stand Firm Against Nazi Assault" Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of PA.
"Joachim Alfermann was repeatedly beaten and humiliated, and then he was placed in solitary confinement. But Alfermann remained steadfast and refused to bear arms. After enduring prolonged efforts to break his integrity to God, Alfermann was finaly sent to the Stutthof concentration camp in February 1944. Liberated in April 1945, he survived the war and remained a loyal Witness of Jehovah until his death in 1998. Altermann was one of the 13,400 Witnesses in Germany and in countries occupied by the Nazies, who suffered reprisal because of their faith. They followed the direction of the Bible, remaining politically neutral and refusing to take up arms (Matthew 26.52; John 18:36). Some 4,200 Witnesses were interned in concentration camps, and 1,490 lost their lives." Watchtower October 15, 2007.
Jena - Krs. Jena, Russian zone
CC Kdo of Buchenwald, working for the RAW (Reichsbahn-Ausbesserungswerke) in Jena, Loebstaedter Strasse 50, establish 4.10.44, averaging 800 prisons. Last mentioned 10.4.45, Abbreviated name of Kdo: is JE
Being only 15 miles away from Buchenwald, groups of prisoners would be sent to Jena on special tasks, whenever requested by the Buergermaster (mayor) (Aug 1944)
• Prison: Landgerichtsgefaengnuis
• Carl Zeisswerke, Lutherstrasse 26
• Jennaer Glaswerke
• Gemeinschaftslager on the Beutenberg
Kahla - Krs Stadtroda - Russian zone - https:www.walpersberg.de
In a district between Kahla, Eichenberg - 3 miles WSW of Kahla, Orlamuende - 4 miles SW of Kahla and Gross Eutersdorf - 2 miles S of Kahla, a big subterranean armament factory was under construction with the help of PoW's, forced labor and voluntary workers, billeted in the following camps: Camps 1, 2, 3; Camps 4 and 5 of forced labourers; Camp 6 of volunteers; Camp 7 of political prisoners and PoW's camp "O", an SS-bunker; "Biber" for Russian civilian workers; the Flame SS camp of volunteers; the Hitler Jugend camp; all in Kahla. Camp E , mostly for Belgian political prisoners in Eichenberg. Disciplinary camps was in Orlamuende (from BNTD).
First of all, congratulations with your superb website on the Displaced Camps. I have been doing research on one of the biggest underground aircraft factories in Germany between 1944 - 1945 near Kahla. At this factory, 15,000 forced labourers had to work from many countries, like Poland, Russia, Belgium, Italy, and so on. Conditions were very hard and a lot of them died. In March, I founded an association and we are working very hard to prepare everything for the inauguration in May 2004. Patrick Brion
Kassel - kries,
Kdo. Buchenwald, See Buchenwald slaveCampsB-C
prison Gefaengsnis
Civilian Worker Camp: - See Weimar - Bindel-Lager, 120 person. Oct '43 - April '45, US zone
Zwangarbeitslager
SSS - Bauleitung
Kaufering - labour camp June 1943 - April 1945; est. prisoners 30,000; est. deaths min. 14,500;
see: http://www.buergervereinigung-landsberg.de/
http://www.ushmm.org
Book: Edith Raim, "Unternehmen Ringeltaube" Dachaus Aussenlagerkomplex Kaufering, Dachauer Hefte, Heft 5: Die vergessene Lager, 193-213.
4/24/05 Dear Olga,
The records at NARA state that my uncle Heinrich MALZ was freed at Kaufering, which I believe was a sub-camp of Dachau. How can I find any record of him in a DP-Camp? Can I find what happened to him after he left the camp? Regards, Doug Mason, Melbourne mason@alphalink.com.au
Kleinbardorf
Reply to Alexandra's inquiry:
Kleinbardorf is a tiny little village about 8 kms southwest of Königshofen (today named Bad Könishofen)
which is located about 35 kms northwest of the city of Schweinfurt (which
you should be able to locate on any halfway decent map of Germany, it is
in the northern parts of Bavaria). My goodness, your mom must have taken
some kind of a tour of Germany - going on to Mannheim (located on the river
Rhine about 90 kms of Frankfurt) - at that time a hell of a trip (well, we
don't know where she has been during her time in Kleinbardorf and Mannheim)
but at least in the American Zone of Germany after the war. How she ever
made it to Hannover I can't even estimate as this city was located in the
British Zone and travel between zones was anything but easy or simple. Jan
For those who know more about Kelinbardorf, contact Alexandra at agibson7497@rogers.com
Kleindembach - https:www.walpersberg.de
Kleinkoetz - civilian work camp; Krs. Guenzburg Bavaria, US zone - forced labour camp for Eastern workers*
*Ostarbeiter - Eastern worker- was a Nazi German designation for foreign slave workers gathered from occupied Central and Eastern Europe to perform forced labor in Germany during World War II. Over 50% of Ostarbeiters were formerly Soviet subjects originating from the territory of modern-day Ukraine, followed by Polish women workers (approaching 30% of the total). Eastern workers included ethnic Ukrainians, Poles, Belarusians, Russians, Tatars, and others. Estimates of the number of Ostarbeiter range between 3 million and 5.5 million.
Kleinkötz is a village near Günzburg District in Bavaria in Germany, the site of a post World War II American sector displaced person camp. It is the birthplace of Johann Eberlin von Günzburg.
Website http://landkreis-guenzburg.de
Günzburg is a Landkreis (district) in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Dillingen, Augsburg, Unterallgäu and Neu-Ulm, and by the state of Baden-Württemberg (districts Alb-Donau and Heidenheim).
Scouting and Guiding flourished in these camps. These Scout and Girl Guide groups provided postal delivery and other basic services in Displaced persons camps.
On Feb 17, 2020 Hallo,
My parents were in Kleinkotz DP Camp at the end of the war. Do you know if this camp still stands? Do you know what the location was? I would like to visit no matter if it is still there or not. I have written to Gunzburg but receive no reply. I am hoping you can answer my questions.
Danke, Inta Erenfeld queenrocks51@hotmail.com
Kö ln Nordrhein-Westfalen
Konstanz
Korbach
Krefeld Nordrhein-Westfalen
KZ Konzentrationlager system (concentration camp) 20,000 camps held forced labor of all nationalities of conquered countries.
Laatzen - civilian
work camp -
700 persons - see researching the
British zone
Lahde/Weser
Short story about the Gestapo/SS work education camp Lahde/Weser
This work education camp was built up in accordance to a huge power station and a canal in the Lahde area. In this camp there lived about 700 Gestapo prisoners, guarded by SS personnel. They were forced to work building the elements of the power station Lahde or producing gravel in a quarry near Steinbergen/Weser Hills. Most of the prisoners were former slave workers from Russia and Poland, the minority of them came from Netherlands or France. The death rate was high. From March 1943 to April 1945 about 700 prisoners died or were executed without real reason. They are buried on several cemeteries in the region.
In the first April days 1945 the camp was evacuated to Hannover-Ahlem and afterwards about 80 Russian prisoners from the work education camp Lahde were executed on the Seelhorst cemetery in Hannover.
Hermann Kleinebenne Hermann_Kleinebenne@web.de
Langenstein - subcamp in Buchenwald; April 1944 - April 1945; est. prisoners 5,000; est. deaths 2,000
Lauenburg
Lauf Pegnitz / Lauf A.D. Pegnitz
My mother was in a forced labor camp in Lauf ad Pegnitz (On a map I see Lauf Pegnitz a little right of Nurnberg. Its a suburb.I've seen it as Lauf A.D. Pegnitz as well). I am looking for more information. She must have been in a camp in Nurnburg, but I am not sure. I can't ask her, she passed away in 1987. You have a great website. Nell drengaczn@yahoo.com
Lehrte
6 civilian work camps:
Dulag Lehrte – Durchgangslager (Transit Camp) – 2000 persons
Reichsbahn Lager “Ida” (National Railroad), 1000 persons
Wintershall AQ, 300 persons
Heeresmunitionsanstalt (Institute for army ammunition), 150 persons
Sozialgewerk (Social trade), 100 persons
Zuckerfabrik (Sugar factory) Lehrte, 60 persons
Lentersheim had 52 slave labor, male and female. Records are available at the Nuremberg State archives. See: http://www.dpcamps.org
Lety
The concentration camp for Gypsies at Lety, established before Hitler's occupation
of the Czech part of Bohemia, remained entirely under Czech administration.
(Even today, there is no museum or large monument to the Gypsies murdered there
by Czech guards. A small stone square notes the place, while most of the former
camp area is used by a pig farm). It was well evident then, at least to people
with a decent heart, that guilt and innocence in Bohemia were not tied to ethnicity.
For more info, see: http://home.comcast.net/
Leubengrund - www.walpersberg.de
Lichtenau KZ
Lörrach
Luisenberg - In county Eckernfoerde, (See Researching the Britsh Zone in http://www.dpcamps.org/britishZone.html)
Luisenberg was a civilian work camp under the Nazi lager (camp) system.
Civilian work camp: Gemeischafslager Louisenberg, at Torpedoversuchsanstalt Eckenerfoerde, 1200 persons were employed (from files of Ministry of Labour, Schleswig-Holstein)
There was a prison for military personnel called Amtsgerichtsgefaegnis (District court of the prison)
Lübeck
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