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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Ravensbrück
Category: Concentration/labour camp
The main women’s camp in the Third Reich, which operated from 1939, located near the village of Fürstenberg, 60 kilometers northwest of Berlin. A total of 123,000 women from over 40 countries passed through this camp, and around 25,000 died. A small section for men and a section for minors were added later. There were over 30 subcamps. The number of inmates rose sharply in 1944 to over 70,000, after the evacuation of the Warsaw Ghetto, due to the need for labour for the war industry. Medical experiments were conducted and mass extermination programs were implemented, initially elsewhere (at Hartheim and Auschwitz) and in the final months of the war in the camp’s gas chambers. Maria Tsiskaki, in her book Greek Women in Nazi Camps (2001), describes the deportation of 61 women from the Haidari prison camp in Athens to the Banica prison in Belgrade, to Auschwitz, and then to Ravensbrück.
USHMΜ, Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, vol. I B (2009), 1187–1191.
The main women’s camp in the Third Reich, which operated from 1939, located near the village of Fürstenberg, 60 kilometers northwest of Berlin. A total of 123,000 women from over 40 countries passed through this camp, and around 25,000 died. A small section for men and a section for minors were added later. There were over 30 subcamps. The number of inmates rose sharply in 1944 to over 70,000, after the evacuation of the Warsaw Ghetto, due to the need for labour for the war industry. Medical experiments were conducted and mass extermination programs were implemented, initially elsewhere (at Hartheim and Auschwitz) and in the final months of the war in the camp’s gas chambers. Maria Tsiskaki, in her book Greek Women in Nazi Camps (2001), describes the deportation of 61 women from the Haidari prison camp in Athens to the Banica prison in Belgrade, to Auschwitz, and then to Ravensbrück.
USHMΜ, Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, vol. I B (2009), 1187–1191.
Rheine
Subcamp of: Neuengamme
Category: Concentration/labour camp
A city in Westphalia with an airport, to which Greek prisoners-of-war from the Bathorn POW camp were transported for forced-labour in the fall of 1944.
Greek State Archives, Magnesia branch, Volos Court of First Instance, “Nazi Rulings,” Archive, no. 356/31-1-1962, 487/28-2-1962, 355/31-1-1962.
Category: Concentration/labour camp
A city in Westphalia with an airport, to which Greek prisoners-of-war from the Bathorn POW camp were transported for forced-labour in the fall of 1944.
Greek State Archives, Magnesia branch, Volos Court of First Instance, “Nazi Rulings,” Archive, no. 356/31-1-1962, 487/28-2-1962, 355/31-1-1962.