Wilischthal subcamp

The Wilischthal subcamp was a subcamp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp .

On October 30, 1944, 100 more Jewish inmates arrived in Wilischthal from the Auschwitz camp, followed by 200 on November 22, 1944 . The prisoners were all women, mostly from Poland, Hungary and Italy.

The women were employed as workers in the DKK plant of Deutsche Kühl- und Kraftmaschinen GmbH and in the wire and nail plant in Wilischthal (DKW plant in Wilischthal). They built production parts of the MG 151 machine gun , and some of them were also used in an annealing furnace. The camp was run by the superintendent Helene Klofik , who is described as "extremely hostile". On April 13, 1945, the women were sent to Theresienstadt , where the guards withdrew. At the beginning of May 1945 the women were finally liberated by the Soviet Army together with the other Theresienstadt prisoners.

literature

• Pascal Cziborra: Wilischthal concentration camp. Under Hitler eye supervision. Lorbeer Verlag, Lemgo 2007, ISBN 978-3-938969-01-4 .
• Wolfgang Benz, Barbara Distel, Angelika Königseder (eds.): Flossenbürg: The concentration camp Flossenbürg and its satellite camps . CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-56229-7 , p. 264 ff .