Camps
A brief description of the camps of the Third Reich and Fascist Italy where prisoners from Magnesia were held between 1941 and 1945, and for which information has been found. The camps are divided into four categories:
- Prisoner-of-war camps
- Concentration/labor camps
- Concentration and extermination camps
- Camps in fascist Italy
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Augsburg
Subcamp of: Dachau
Category: Concentration/labour camp
There were many subcamps in the city, set up by individual firms as labour camps. For example, in the Augsburg-Pfersee camp most prisoners, including Greek forced labourers, worked at the Messerschmitt factory. Other Greek men and women worked in the textile mills and at the sugar factory. About half of the forced labourers from Magnesia were transferred from Moosburg POW camp to Augsburg, of whom 120 were housed in an old elementary school (Luitpoldschule) in the Lechhausen district.
Augsburg City Archive, oral testimonies.
Category: Concentration/labour camp
There were many subcamps in the city, set up by individual firms as labour camps. For example, in the Augsburg-Pfersee camp most prisoners, including Greek forced labourers, worked at the Messerschmitt factory. Other Greek men and women worked in the textile mills and at the sugar factory. About half of the forced labourers from Magnesia were transferred from Moosburg POW camp to Augsburg, of whom 120 were housed in an old elementary school (Luitpoldschule) in the Lechhausen district.
Augsburg City Archive, oral testimonies.
Auschwitz
Category: Concentration camp, labour camp, extermination camp
Auschwitz was established in 1940 near Kraków (Poland), initially as a concentration camp for 10,000 Polish political and criminal prisoners. Over time, however, it evolved into the largest and most lethal camp of Nazi Germany, combining three distinct functions: as a concentration camp (Auschwitz I), as an extermination camp (Auschwitz II Birkenau), and as a forced-labour camp (Auschwitz III Monowitz). At Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1.3 million people were murdered, 90% of whom were Jews. However, non-Jewish political prisoners were also held at Auschwitz. Among them was a group of 35 Greek women members of the Resistance. Eleni Vlahava from Almyros was one of them.
USHMΜ, Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, vol. I Α, 204-220. Vaso Stamatiou, Warum? A Greek woman in Auschwitz (in Greek), 2023.
Auschwitz was established in 1940 near Kraków (Poland), initially as a concentration camp for 10,000 Polish political and criminal prisoners. Over time, however, it evolved into the largest and most lethal camp of Nazi Germany, combining three distinct functions: as a concentration camp (Auschwitz I), as an extermination camp (Auschwitz II Birkenau), and as a forced-labour camp (Auschwitz III Monowitz). At Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1.3 million people were murdered, 90% of whom were Jews. However, non-Jewish political prisoners were also held at Auschwitz. Among them was a group of 35 Greek women members of the Resistance. Eleni Vlahava from Almyros was one of them.
USHMΜ, Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, vol. I Α, 204-220. Vaso Stamatiou, Warum? A Greek woman in Auschwitz (in Greek), 2023.