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7 unusual facts about Stutthof concentration camp


Bocień

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

Dziemiany

It was the location of the Nazi concentration camp Dzimianen - Sophienwalde, a subcamp of the concentration camp Stutthof.

Felix Nussbaum

In December, his brother – the last of the family – died from exhaustion in the camp at Stutthof.

Piaśnica

The Piaśnica wilderness, where the river begins, is a place of Polish and Jewish martyrology; the second largest site of mass killings of Polish civilians in Pomerania (after Stutthof) during World War II.

Przebrno

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

Reidar Kvammen

He was imprisoned in August 1943 and held in prison in Stavanger, then in Grini concentration camp from August to December 1943, then in Stutthof concentration camp until the end of the war.

SS Heimwehr Danzig

After the "reunification of Danzig with the German Reich," the Wachsturmbann "Eimann" provided the staff for the newly established concentration camp Stutthof near Danzig.


Kovno Ghetto

On July 8, 1944, the Germans evacuated the camp, deporting most of the remaining Jews to the Dachau concentration camp in Germany or to the Stutthof camp, near Danzig, on the Baltic coast.

Liselund

Niels Rosenkranz was also a key member of the group who organised the rescue of 351 ex-inmates of the Stutthof concentration camp who arrived in a river barge at nearby Klintholm Havn on 5 May 1945, the day Denmark was liberated from the Germans.

Max Pauly

Max Pauly (June 1, 1907, Wesselburen – October 8, 1946) was an SS Standartenführer who was the commandant of Stutthof concentration camp from September, 1939 to August 1942 and commandant of Neuengamme concentration camp and the associated subcamps from September 1942 until liberation in May 1945.

Przysposobienie Wojskowe Kobiet

Unlike civilians from Warsaw, they were not sent to the concentration camps such as Ravensbrück and Stutthof, but to special POW camps, operated by the Wehrmacht, mainly Stalag VI-C in Oberlangen and Oflag IX-C in Molsdorf.


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