Horserød camp
Camp Horserød (Danish: Horserødlejren ) was an internment camp during the First and Second World Wars . Part of it is now used as Horserød State Prison (Danish: Horserød Statsfængsel ).
history
origin
The Danish government had signed a humanitarian treaty with the German Reich, Austria-Hungary and Russia to take in and care for wounded prisoners of war. The camp, established in 1917, served as a sick camp for the care of the Russian prisoners of war. When they were released at the end of the war in 1918 and were able to travel home, the camp was used to care for Allied soldiers from other countries from German prisoner-of-war camps. From 1920 it was used as a holiday and recreation camp.
Second World War
Between April 19, 1940 and August 2, 1941, 80 refugees from Germany were interned in the camp, of which 41 were sent back to Germany. Fourteen were sentenced to death by a court in Hamburg and the others were taken to German concentration camps.
On June 22, 1941, at the instigation of the German occupying power, around 300 communists were arrested by the Danish police, and on August 22, 1941, the Danish parliament subsequently created a legal basis for this. Of these communists, 107 were transferred from Vestre prison in Copenhagen to Horserød on August 20 . More communists and Spanish fighters came along. On August 29, 1943, the camp was occupied by the Germans and 95 communists managed to escape. On October 2nd, 150 communists from the camp were deported to concentration camps via Swinoujscie along with 202 Jews from Copenhagen on the ship "Wartheland", which was provided for the deportation of Jews. The communists in the Stutthof concentration camp and the Jews in the Theresienstadt concentration camp . The camp was then used to intern prominent Danes, resistance activists and Jews until 1944. On October 14th, 175 Jews from the Theresienstadt concentration camp arrived and on October 23rd, 16 Jews were deported partly to Sachsenhausen and partly to Ravensbrück.
post war period
Danish collaborators were interned in the camp from 1945 to 1947. Horserød State Prison has been located in Horserød since 1947.
memory
Opposite the main entrance to the warehouse is the small Horserødlejrens Museum . The Horserød memorial by sculptor Per Ulrich on the site was inaugurated on June 22, 1991.
Web links
- Horserød Fængsel on Kriminal Forsorgen (Danish)
- Jødelejren , Dans Institut for Internationale Studier (Danish)
- History Horserød Fængsel , Horserød Fængsel (Danish)
Individual evidence
- ^ Scenes from the camp in Horserød . British Library, accessed December 1, 2016
- ↑ Horserødlejrens historie ( Memento from April 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). Horserød-Stutthof Foreningen, accessed December 1, 2016
- ↑ Horserødlejrens historie ( Memento from April 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). Horserød-Stutthof Foreningen, accessed December 1, 2016
- ↑ Horserødlager Museum Guide ( Memento of the original from September 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF). Retrieved December 2, 2016
- ^ The persecution of danish jews . Folkedrab.DK, accessed December 4, 2016
- ↑ History of Horserød Fængsel . accessed on December 1, 2016
Coordinates: 56 ° 2 ′ 43.8 ″ N , 12 ° 29 ′ 40.2 ″ E