Rennersdorf subcamp

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Gut Oberrennersdorf, 1967

The Rennersdorf subcamp was a branch of the Groß-Rosen concentration camp in Rennersdorf / OL and existed from February 23 to March 10, 1945. The mostly Jewish prisoners came from the Görlitz subcamp on a death march .

Accommodation

On February 11, 1945, by order of the NSDAP district leader Bruno Malitz , the Görlitz subcamp was evacuated before the advancing Red Army. The prisoners were housed near the Eichler mountain in Gut Oberrennersdorf , which had been sold to the Wehrmacht in 1937 . While the guards moved into quarters in the estate or in the Schmidt-Mühle, the prisoners were locked in a horse stable - approx. 70 m outside the estate. The camp as such was of a provisional nature. It was neither fenced in with barbed wire nor secured by watchtowers.

Fatalities

During the fifteen-day stay, twelve Jews are known to have died as a result of shooting, starvation or illness. Eleven of the victims were buried in the Rennersdorf cemetery after the war, as a memorial stone with a Star of David erected in 1950 commemorates. The twelfth dead person was probably buried in the Jewish cemetery in Görlitz.

resolution

After the Rennersdorf camp was closed, the prisoners had to return to Görlitz to build fortifications to defend the city.

In a show trial against Bruno Malitz and the last Görlitz NSDAP mayor, Hans Meinshausen , the death penalty was imposed in 1948.

literature

  • Niels Seidel : The Görlitz and Rennersdorf subcamps 1944/45 - A contribution to the processing of the events in the Groß Rosen concentration camp. Neiße Verlag, 2008, 256 pages. ISBN 978-3-940310-19-4 .
  • Kurt Wolf: The Görlitz Biesnitzer Grund subcamp. City administration of Görlitz, 2005.
  • Shlomo Graber: Sly. From Hungary through Auschwitz-Birkenau, Fifthichen and Görlitz to Israel. Jewish family history 1859–2001. HARTUNG-GORRE Verlag, 2002, 160 pages. ISBN 3-89649-757-X .
  • Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 6: Natzweiler, Groß-Rosen, Stutthof. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-52966-5 .
  • Karl-Heinz Gräfe , Hans-Jürgen Töpfer : Separated and almost forgotten. Concentration camp satellite camp on the territory of today's Saxony. Dresden 1996. DNB 95491872X

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Niels Seidel: The Görlitz and Rennersdorf satellite camps 1944/45 - A contribution to the processing of the events in the Groß Rosen concentration camp. Neisse Verlag, 2008.

Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 1.8 ″  N , 14 ° 47 ′ 21.6 ″  E