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unusual facts about German concentration camp



Prawo i pięść

It tells a story of Andrzej Kenig (portrayed by Gustaw Holoubek), a former fighter of the Polish resistance and survivor of a German concentration camp.

Zasław concentration camp

The Zasław concentration camp or Zwangsarbeitslager Zaslaw was the World War II German concentration camp for ghettoised Jews, established in occupied Poland near the village of Zasław, (now part of Zagórz in Poland).


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Andrew Leo Bettwy

1LT Bettwy participated in the liberation of the German concentration camp at Landsberg, and during the final three days of the war in Europe in May 1945, was officially "traded" to the German 38th SS Division Nibelungen as liaison officer to effect orderly surrenders.

Bocień

Bocień was the location of the German concentration camp Bottschin, a subcamp of the concentration camp Stutthof.

Franz Lucas

Dr. Franz Bernhard Lucas (15 September 1911, in Osnabrück, Germany – 7 December 1994, in Elmshorn, Germany) was a German concentration camp doctor and SS Obersturmführer who served at Auschwitz concentration camp during the same period of time as Josef Mengele.

Kosta Hakman

A drastic cut was made by a time spent imprisoned in a German concentration camp in Dortmund that he was taken to in 1941 as a prisoner of war.

Micha Tomkiewicz

Marcelli Robert (his name was changed after the war to "Micha") Tomkiewicz was born on May 25, 1939 in Warsaw, Poland, and lived in the Warsaw Ghetto before his family was sent off to the German concentration camp Bergen-Belsen.

Michel Didisheim

Claire Maigret de Priches (1906–1983), as an Allied agent and member of the Belgian Resistance, was taken to Ravensbrück German concentration camp for female prisoners in Mecklenburg, northwest of Berlin, established in 1936.

Przebrno

During the Second World War it was the location for the German concentration camp Pröbernau, a subcamp of the concentration camp Stutthof.

Stefan Adam Zamoyski

Zamoyski wrote to the head of RAF Bomber Command, requesting that the German concentration camp Auschwitz be bombed to allow the Polish political prisoners there at the time to escape; the RAF declined to act.