Language:
German
Year of publication:
1990
Titel der Quelle:
1999; Zeitschrift für Sozialgeschichte des 20
Angaben zur Quelle:
5,3 (1990) 98-109
Keywords:
Geislingen an der Steige (Concentration camp)
;
Struthof (Concentration camp)
;
Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik
;
Forced labor History 1933-1945
;
Nazi concentration camps
;
Jews History 1939-1945
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Jewish women, mostly Hungarian, were brought from Auschwitz and other concentration camps in Eastern Europe to Geislingen/Steige in the Swabian Alps, the satellite labor camp of the Natzweiler concentration camp in Alsace. They were employed for war industry by the Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik in two daily shifts, 12 hours each. The shortage of food supplies, the lack of hygienic conditions, and maltreatment by the staff led to illness or death. In cases of sickness, the women were sent to the gas chambers in the extermination camps. Includes autobiographical reports by survivors.
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