Velten subcamp

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Velten subcamp memorial plaque
Velten subcamp memorial plaque
The area seen from the train station today. On the right at the edge of the picture a small part of the former hardware store. On the left of the picture is the street, previously there was the path that led along the subcamp.

The Velten subcamp was located at Berliner Straße 8d in Velten from March 1943 and was initially subordinate to the Ravensbrück concentration camp , later to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . The female inmates had to do forced labor for the Ikaria / Veltener Maschinenbau GmbH group , an important supplier of the Heinkel-Werke Oranienburg .

history

In March 1943 the inspection of the concentration camps in Velten had a satellite camp of the Ravensbrück concentration camp built. The site chosen was the property in Berliner Straße 8d, which was directly at the Hohenschöpping stop of the Kremmener Bahn . The SS locked German, Jewish, Polish, French, Latvian, Romanian, Hungarian and Sinti and Roma women prisoners in the six wooden barracks , which were fenced off with an electric fence . The location of the camp was chosen so that the women lived close to Ikaria / Veltener Maschinenbau in Berliner Straße 12b and Havelschmelzwerk GmbH in Berliner Straße 8, where they had to do forced labor. The head of the satellite camp, which was subordinate to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp from September 1944 , was an SS-Unterscharführer named Heinrich Loose. At the end of 1944, 722 women were living in the camp under inhumane conditions. On the night of April 19-20, 1945, the camp was closed and the inmates were driven on foot via Eberswalde towards northern Germany. At the beginning of May 1945, the Red Army liberated the survivors near Parchim .

During the demolition of a wooden barracks in Velten in Germendorfer Allee in 2010, a Veltener discovered a Russian inscription on a wooden beam. There was:

"The girls were locked up here for exactly two years ........"

The names of six Ukrainian women followed . As the names reveal, the women were inmates of the subcamp. The barracks were sold by Ikaria in 1948 or 1949 and rebuilt on the property in Germendorfer Allee.

After the barracks were demolished in the late 1950s, there was no longer any evidence of the existence of the subcamp. There are three smaller buildings here on a map from 1992. Then Götzen Baumarkt built a large hall complex on the site and used it as a branch until the bankruptcy in 1998.

In 2012, the path that now touches the area of ​​the former camp was renamed In Remembrance . A street sign was put up without it being clear what should be remembered. In 2013, the city administration of Velten planned to set up a stainless steel pillar with information on the history of the camp in 2014, which was implemented in April 2015.

See also

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Norbert Rohde : Site plan (drawing 1943). Online at Lars Molzberger: The subcamp at Hohenschöpping station .
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Benz, Barbara Distel, Angelika Königseder, p. 282.
  3. ^ Tilman Trebs: Prisoners' Barracks in the Garden (PDF), published in the Oranienburger Generalanzeiger on August 25, 2012, p. 4.
  4. ↑ Andrea Kathert: Remembrance on stainless steel , Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung , May 16, 2013.
  5. ↑ Roland Becker: Torn from forgetting , Märkische Online Zeitung, August 1, 2014.

Coordinates: 52 ° 40 ′ 13.4 "  N , 13 ° 11 ′ 46.7"  E