Language:
English
Year of publication:
1992
Titel der Quelle:
Yad Vashem Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
22 (1992) 273-286
Keywords:
Stutthof (Concentration camp)
;
Brusy-Dziemiany (concentration camp)
;
Nazi concentration camps
Abstract:
The camp at Brusy-Dzemiany (labor camp Bruss) was set up in accordance with an order of the Stutthof camp command on 24 August 1944. Its first prisoners, 500 Jewish women, arrived from the Kaiserwald concentration camp near Riga via Stutthof, which was overcrowded at this time. Most of the women were placed in a camp at Dzemiany (Sophienwalde), the rest in the buildings of a monastery at Brusy. The prisoners were used in the construction of the SS testing range, and subsisted under terrible work and living conditions. Some of them perished during the work, and were replaced by other women prisoners. In February 1945 the SS began to evacuate the camp. Before the evacuation began, ca. 80 prisoners were shot. Based partially on eyewitnesses' accounts.
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