Kolkau was a subcamp of the German concentration camp Stutthof near Danzig during the Third Reich. [1]
Ostrów Island is a river island, located in the delta of the Vistula river, within the city limits of Gdańsk in northern Poland. Administratively, it is located within the district of Młyniska.
Stutthof was a Nazi concentration camp established by Nazi Germany in a secluded, marshy, and wooded area near the village of Stutthof 34 km (21 mi) east of the city of Danzig (Gdańsk) in the territory of the German-annexed Free City of Danzig. The camp was set up around existing structures after the invasion of Poland in World War II and initially used for the imprisonment of Polish leaders and intelligentsia. The actual barracks were built the following year by prisoners. Most of the infrastructure of the concentration camp was either destroyed or dismantled shortly after the war. In 1962, the former concentration camp with its remaining structures, was turned into a memorial museum.
Elisabeth Becker was a Nazi concentration camp overseer in World War II.
Gerda Steinhoff was a Schutzstaffel (SS) Nazi concentration camp overseer following the 1939 German invasion of Poland.
Wanda Klaff was a Nazi concentration camp overseer. Klaff was born in Danzig to German parents as Wanda Kalacinski. After the war, she was executed for crimes against humanity.
Ewa Paradies was a Nazi concentration camp overseer.
Jenny-Wanda Barkmann (30 May 1922 – 4 July 1946) was a German overseer in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. She was tried and executed for crimes against humanity after the war.
Bromberg-Ost was the female subcamp of the German Nazi concentration camp KL Stutthof between 1944-1945, set up in the city of Bydgoszcz during the later stages of World War II. The mostly Jewish women prisoners dispatched from the main camp in Sztutowo worked as slave-labour for the German railways; loading cargo, clearing and repairing tracks, and digging ditches. The commandant of the camp was SS-Scharführer Anton Kniffke.
Suchanino is a district of Gdańsk, Poland, located in the central part of the city. With 12,937 inhabitants in an area of 1.3 km2 it has a population density of 9,812 inhabitants/km2. Most buildings are high-rise and were constructed in the 1970s.
Kaiserwald (Ķeizarmežs) was a Nazi concentration camp near the Riga suburb of Mežaparks in modern-day Latvia.
Sztutowopronounced[ʂtuˈtɔvɔ] is a village in Nowy Dwór Gdański County, within the Pomeranian Voivodeship of northern Poland. It is located about 38 km (24 mi) east of Gdańsk on the northeastern edge of the Vistula Delta, at the base of the Vistula Spit on the Baltic coast.
Fritz Katzmann, also known as Friedrich Katzmann, was a German SS and Police Leader during the Nazi era. He perpetrated genocide in the cities of Kattowitz, Radom, Lemberg, Danzig, and across the Nazi occupied District of Galicia in the General Government during the Holocaust in Poland, making him a major figure during the Holocaust there.
The Stutthof trials were a series of war crime tribunals held in postwar Poland for the prosecution of Stutthof concentration camp staff and officials, responsible for the murder of up to 85,000 prisoners during the occupation of Poland by Nazi Germany in World War II. None of the Stutthof commandants were ever tried in Poland. SS-Sturmbannführer Max Pauly was put on trial by a British military court in Germany but not for the crimes committed at Stutthof; only as the commandant of the Neuengamme concentration camp in Hamburg. Nevertheless, Pauly was executed in 1946.
Mikoszewo is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Stegna, within Nowy Dwór Gdański County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately 17 kilometres (11 mi) north-west of Nowy Dwór Gdański and 22 km (14 mi) east of the regional capital Gdańsk. Mikoszewo is where the longest Polish river, Vistula, empties into the Baltic Sea. It is located within the historic region of Pomerania.
Nawcz is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Łęczyce, within Wejherowo County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately 11 kilometres (7 mi) south-east of Łęczyce, 23 km (14 mi) south-west of Wejherowo, and 48 km (30 mi) west of the regional capital Gdańsk.
Kępiny Wielkie is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Elbląg, within Elbląg County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately 17 kilometres (11 mi) north of Elbląg and 93 km (58 mi) north-west of the regional capital Olsztyn.
Nadbrzeże is a settlement in the administrative district of Gmina Tolkmicko, within Elbląg County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately 10 kilometres (6 mi) south-west of Tolkmicko, 20 km (12 mi) north of Elbląg, and 90 km (56 mi) north-west of the regional capital Olsztyn.
Paul-Werner Hoppe was an SS-Obersturmbannführer and was the commandant of Stutthof concentration camp from September 1942 until April 1945.
During the Holocaust, death marches were massive forced transfers of prisoners from one Nazi camp to other locations, which involved walking long distances resulting in numerous deaths of weakened people. Most death marches took place toward the end of World War II, mostly after the summer/autumn of 1944. Hundreds of thousands of prisoners, mostly Jews, from Nazi camps near the Eastern Front were moved to camps inside Germany away from the Allied forces. Their purpose was to continue the use of prisoners' slave labour, to remove evidence of crimes against humanity, and to keep the prisoners from bargaining with the Allies.
Source:Atlas of the Holocaust by Martin Gilbert (1982)
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