Laband Internment Camp
The Laband internment camp of the Soviet NKVD existed from February 1945 to 1946.
The camp was built in a residential area in the Great Settlement in Laband (later Łabędy ), a town in the Upper Silesian district of Tost-Gleiwitz north of the city of Gleiwitz .
Men between the ages of 17 and 50 were asked by Soviet troops to register for forced labor . They first had to do work in the surrounding towns. There were also other internees from all over Silesia. Shortly afterwards, the first transports of interned Germans to the Soviet Union for forced labor began in the region.
Little information is available about the camp and the conditions of residence; it is estimated that there are several thousand internees.
On the 65th anniversary of the deportation of Silesians from the Laband internment camp to the Soviet Union, a memorial stone was unveiled, which was erected by the members of the German Friendship Circle in the Silesian district . The German consul Ludwig Neudorfer from Opole , the chairman of the Association of German Social-Cultural Societies in Poland , Bernard Gaida, the German Friendship Circle in the Silesian District and representatives of the city of Gliwice took part in the commemoration event for the 65th anniversary .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ 65th anniversary of the deportation of people from the region from the Laband internment camp to the Soviet Union. Consulate of the Federal Republic of Germany in Opole, archived from the original on October 6, 2010 ; accessed on November 2, 2017 .