One subcamp of Gross-Rosen was the Brnnlitz labor camp, situated in the Czechoslovakian town of Brnnec, where Jews rescued by Oskar Schindler were interned. Bayern to 27.4.1945" (International They were identifiable and countable at every turn. Heaters were there, but -Akt "Henschel" SS-OSCHA im KL Dachau" der - Baubrigade 2b. If you have any questions, please contact us at the following e-mail address: sztetl@polin.pl, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews (USHMM, 759), By The Journey Through The Holocaust team, Landeshut was a work camp under the Gross-Rosen concentration camp system that was liberated in May of 1945 by the Soviet 21st Army. The camps are classified by countries, based on the 1939-1945 borders. viz., Sachsenhausen, Friedrich Kraus-Ufer in the former Auer factory and Berlin-Lichterfelde The Reading Room at the Shapell Center is open to the public, Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.51 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0051, Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0578 | RG Number: RG-10.174, 19, 1943, in which she describes her deportation from Sosnowiec, Poland; life in "Landschut, Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.152 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0152, Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.190 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0190, Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1594 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1594, Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.374 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0374, Publication | Library Call Number: HD4875.G4 C46 1989, Publication | Library Call Number: HD4875.G4 C35 2005, Remove constraint Subject: Landeshut (Concentration camp). A Baubrigade 2c seems to have worked in Ferch..On 25.2.1945, 500 pris. Exerzierplatz" Historical facts have proven time and time again, that Nazi Germany, planned and implemented their plan to rid Europe of those whom they considered sub-human. This list is based on information found in two books: Thanks so much to Mark Vardasz and Andreas Baumgartner for their very valuable help in completing this list. Theresienstadt Ghetto) had their own external kommandos (work teams). Dr. Meir Basler from Holon/ Israel Eschner and Drazdauskas were sentenced to life imprisonment and Hasselbrck was sentenced to death, but this was later commuted also to life imprisonment. Michael Braitberg from North Balwyn/ Australia He had taken Henschel to court from Hartfort USA, on 7 May 1968. Additionally, this list does not contain the names of the ghettos created by the Nazis. [1.1]. This is a partial list classified by country (1939-1945 borders). Almost every major German city had at least a slave labor camp nearby. to current definitions it was an extension branch In order to properly print this page, please use dedicated print button. The real number of concentration and extermination camps established in occupied Soviet Union by the Nazis is unknown. after the air raids." He was the supreme architect of the operation; without him it would have been inconceivable. The bodies were Or maybe a few people were killed, but not millions. (Weinmann, page Would he shoot?But nothing happened. Death camps, constructed for the sole purpose of mass executions by means of poison gas, shootings, starvation, disease, and torture were used by the Nazis to exterminate those fellow humans--men, women, children , and infants--by design. transfer books and invoices) For full functionality please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. The Nazi plan displaced millions of families from all over Europe. Josef Gordom from Silverspring /USA Most died in the granite quarry.

The infirmary did not have the medicine it needed, and many of the prisoners died. (USHMM, 758) Landeshut was surrounded by a barbed-wire fence and was guarded by SS men of the Gross-Rosen Guard Battalion 11th Company. http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/phistories/index.php. the former areal." There were several small camps which were created for limited-time operations against local populations. being deeply scared -he watched one prisoner biting into this apple (Emslander, page 11). Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record: Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center, Australian Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Jewish Archives at Western Reserve Historical Society Library, Oral history interview with Shemshihu Spivack, Oral history interview with Gerda Weissmann Klein, Concentration camp uniform cap worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner who was in several camps, Concentration camp uniform pants worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner who was in several camps, Concentration camp uniform jacket worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner who was in several camps, Oral history interview with Irving Schaffer, Hanukkah menorah with rearing lions used by a Polish German survivor, Oral history interview with Dov Davidovich. (Emslander, During the Gross-Rosen initial period of operation as a formal subcamp of Sachsenhausen, the following two SS Lagerfhrer officers served as the camp commandants, the SS-Untersturmfhrer Anton Thumann, and SS-Untersturmfhrer Georg Gregen. By 18 March 1944 Gabersdorf had become a subcamp of Gross-Rosen.[7]. These three groups were distinct from one another, and they did not change in their lifetime. treatment, because the [9], The most far-reaching expansion of the Gross-Rosen system of labour camps took place in 1944 due to accelerated demand for support behind the advancing front. - Trautmann, Heinz: LZ Juli 1990, Seite 42. The Gabersdorf labour camp had been part of a network of forced labor camps for Jewish prisoners that had operated under Organization Schmelt since 1941. Work camps created by the Government of Vichy in Maroco and Algeria. As the complex grew, the majority of inmates were put to work in the new Nazi enterprises attached to these subcamps. and his fear grew: Some time later in winter 1945 a separate Jewish camp was built, They settled where was Jews and non-Jews alike, the victims as a whole, however, have remained an amorphous mass. [7], Brieg's camp kitchen was run by Czech prisoners. A majority spoke German. - Spitzlberger, Georg: Das Aussenkommando Landshut des Konzentrationslagers sources: Landshut established - Isar-Post Nr. was a hand-cart full of deadsin front two prisoners tugged the Verhandlungen des Historischen Vereins fuer Niederbayern 114-115,1988-1989,151-162 Ms. A. 396-397 - Kagerbauer, Max (Erlebnisbericht) in : Ziegler-Schultes, Seite

Millions of them suffered a common fate in front of pre-dug mass graves or in hermetically sealed gas chambers. (Isar Post Nr. was camp leader, SS-Hauptscharfuehrer Stoller, (USHMM, 759) The sick and exhausted prisoners were left at Landeshut, while the rest of the prisoners were led on a march. Februar 1969. How far they came up to the American invasion is not with the Jewish people. which went to Nuremberg, Regensburg, Landshut and Ahrain". dog huts, through whose the wind whistled and They were buried at this place, who was hanged meanwhile in Dachau, Research by some of the worlds most able historians place the number of Holocaust victims murdered by government policy to be not less than twelve million and probably more. In May of 1945 the SS men left the camp and the next morning it was liberated by the Soviet 21st Army. Gustav Mass, deceased Following the unsuccessful Polish Warsaw Uprising of 1944, the Germans deported 3,000 Poles from the Dulag 121 camp in Pruszkw, where they were initially imprisoned, to Gross-Rosen. This list is based on information found in two books: Four former prisoners reported about killing and torturing the Poland - Verzeichnis der Konzentrationslager und ihrer Aussenkommandos (Spitzlberger, see title, page 151/152). Achdorf - ). Esterwegen [Note: In 1941, this camp became dependent from Neuengamme. So I asked the author, Prof. Dr.Georg Spitzlberger, how to understand During the Holocaust, it is estimated that the Nazis established approximately 15,000 labor, death, and concentration camp. [10], Media related to Gross-Rosen concentration camp at Wikimedia Commons, Gross-Rosen entrance gate with the phrase. It turned out that he himself was a contemporary witness of those 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW to them - cemetery where they were buried in mass-graves." Ellrich was known as one of the worst external kommando. The spinning mill where the female Jewish prisoners worked had been "Aryanized" in 1939 by a Vienna-based company called Vereinigte Textilwerke K. H. Barthel & Co. 11), "It Search below to view digital records and find material that you can access at our library and at the Shapell Center. There were about 500 Jews in the camp." Download our mobile app for on-the-go access to the Jewish Virtual Library, Letter From Eisenhower to George Marshall Describing Visit to Ohrdruf, Eisenhower Cable to Marshall Re Nazi Horrors and Need to Show Press and Congress, Eisenhower Discusses Atrocities at Press Conference, Eisenhower Letter On 10th Anniversary of Liberation of Concentration Camps, Goldstein Thanks Eisenhower For Letter On Anniversary of Liberation, SHAEF Counterintelligence Report on Concentration Camps, Labor and Internment Camps in North Africa, Perpetrators Victims Bystanders: The Jewish Catastrophe 1933-1945, 1998 - 2022 American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise, Allendorf (Gmbh zur Verwertung chem. (Spitzlberger:"Kindheit unter Kreuz und Sternen" -"Childhood in the street. A total of over 500 female camp guards were trained and served in the Gross-Rosen complex. On 7 October 1948 all were found guilty of war crimes.

gemaess ??42Abs. Prisoners of the Aussenkommando Landshut: William W. Wermuth came to the NL(sub camp) Landshut in January (Kagerbauer, Therefore erroneous information on the website may not be the basis for claims. France In May of 1944, the Germans were being forced back by the Allied powers and Landeshut was forced to close its doors. Rheinhardt), Stassfurt (construction of an underground factory for C.G. (Kagerbauer, in: Ziegler-Schultes, page 396). February the camp was closed and they pushed The camp was located in the state of Prussia in the province of the lower Silesia. (Emslander, page 12), 3.) 8 March 1946, "When [1], At its peak activity in 1944, the Gross-Rosen complex had up to 100 subcamps located in eastern Germany and in German-occupied Czechoslovakia and Poland. Main telephone: 202.488.0400 four prisoners had to shove to move it at all. [3] In the fall of 1940 the use of labour in Upper Silesia was taken over by the new Organization Schmelt formed on the orders of Heinrich Himmler. they were transported to Muehldorf am Inn.." 16, 8. He had some apples with and he described how he let one apple roll vom 19.12.1989 content=phi_individuals_kurt_gerda_klein_uu.htm, For Maerz 1946 Josef Abir from Ramat Gan /Israel 84028 Landshut, Post office address: When Dora became an independent camp in 1943, it had its own subcamp at Ellrich. (USHMM, 758) There were only the basics at Landeshut, which included a kitchen, laundry and an infirmary.

a works siding to the rail network of the Reichsbahn, streets were records", Louis Borgh from Marietta/ Georgia 16. The Gross-Rosen location close to occupied Poland was of considerable advantage. (Emslander, page camps The three daily meals included 1 pint of mehlzupa (a soup made from water and meal),[8] 150 grams of bread, 1 quart of soup made with rutabaga, beets, cabbage, kale or sometimes nettles, 1 pint of black "coffee" and a spoonful of molasses. have been - Weinmann, Martin: Das nationalsozialistische Lagersystem, Frankfurt/Main 245, Bonn 1987. This is an entry from a multi-part journey:Gerda Weissmann Klein, There was no exact record detailing when Gerda was taken out of the horrendous work camp of Merzdorf and transported by truck to Landeshut. Some of these camps were under Romanian control; e.g. December 1944 a building squad of the "Organisation Todt" with in whose the coldness entered directly. Paul Abramowitz from Chicago / USA (Emslander, page 11), 2.) Millions of them suffered a common fate in front of pre-dug mass graves or in hermetically sealed gas chambers. The largest population of inmates, however, were Jews, initially from the Dachau and Sachsenhausen camps, and later from Buchenwald. Henrik Deutsch, - residence unknown in Landshut 1933-1949, The biggest sub-camps included AL Fnfteichen in Jelcz-Laskowice, four camps in Wrocaw, Dyhernfurth in Brzeg Dolny, Landeshut in Kamienna Gra, and the entire Project Riese along the Owl Mountains. September Although the Holocaust is perceived by many to record the suffering of people of the Jewish faith, no records on any aspect of the Second World War can fail to record that in addition to the six million Jewish men, women and children who were murdered, at least an equal number of non-Jews were also killed, not in the heat of battle, not by military siege, aerial bombardment or the harsh conditions of modern war, but by deliberate, planned murder. During World War II a branch of Gross-Rosen concentration camp - AL Landeshut was established in the town. Simon Klapstein from Monsey /USA 16, 8. Lithuania The white silk that was being used to make the parachutes was more fragile than what Gerda had originally worked on when she was at Bolkenhain. 8 March 1946- interview-report with Simon Klapstein), "The (Puvogel, the former "Kleiner Vorlaeufiges Verzeichnis der 64 vom 24. Sometimes "hard workers" called zulaga would be rewarded with a piece of blood sausage or raw horsemeat sausage, jam and margarine. Dachau, Stadt Landshut Note: Dora-Mittelbau was the cover name of the sub-camp situated at Salza/Thuringe. There was built (Emslander, page

Almost every major German city had at least a slave labor camp nearby. They were identifiable and countable at every turn. - Kimmel, Guenther: Das Konzentrationslager Dachau, in Bayern in for work but all in all you get - In Reference to the Author - Thanking for his help - : Prof. Gerda and the rest of the female prisoners were loaded onto a train and sent to Grnberg in Schlesien. In its final stage, the population of the Gross-Rosen camps accounted for 11% of the total inmates in Nazi concentration camps at that time. [5] Some prisoners who were not able to work but not yet dying were sent to the Dachau concentration camp in so-called invalid transports. Gross Rosen became an independent camp on 1 May 1941. About 500 Jewish people had to live in corrugated iron baracks.. Out in the morning and evening you got a cup of coffee, at midday a David Azy - residence unknown - Trautmann, Heinz: Bericht vom 17.4.1982 prisoners - Aussenkommando Landshut des Konzentrationslagers Dachau" Nahama Alfandary - residence unknown Motek Brajtberg, - residence unknown Unlike the perpetrators, the victims were perpetually exposed. over the Weinberg towards direction South 2 BEG, Bundesgesetzblatt Nr. Losy 50 modocianych winiw z AL Landeshut / Grayna Choptiany. Each saw what happened from its own, special perspective, and each harbored a separate set of attitudes and reactions. April 12th, 1945: The Liberation of Nordhausen, Liberation of Woebbelin concentration camp. photos of old town Landshut, see www.deutsche-schutzgebiete.de. Holocaust Memorial Museum will help you learn more about the Holocaust and research your family history. Byem jecem wojennym w Landeshut - Kamiennej Grze / Leonardo Calossi ; [przekad z jztja niemieckiego, Paulina Baran].