Bahrsplate concentration camp
The Bahrsplate concentration camp was a satellite camp of the Neuengamme concentration camp . It was located on the former river island Bahrsplate in Bremen-Blumenthal .
history
From 1942, camps for Eastern workers and Soviet prisoners of war were set up on the Bahrsplate . Between these storage areas there were also accommodations for the guards of the Kriegsmarine .
On August 20, 1944, a satellite camp of the Neuengamme concentration camp was set up in the buildings of the former camp for Soviet prisoners of war. The prisoners worked for the AG Weser shipyard of Deschimag (Deutsche Schiffs- und Maschinenbau AG). Some of the prisoners worked in a machine hall rented by the Bremen wool combing company, where u. a. Parts for the submarine production of Deschimag were made. A work detail was brought daily by ship to the shipyard in Bremen-Gröpelingen , about 10 km away . When the transport by ship became too dangerous for the guards due to the bombing of the Allies , the SS moved most of the prisoners to the newly built Schützenhof subcamp near the main shipyard at Christmas 1944 . This also affected the transport of around 200 Jewish prisoners, mainly of German and Polish origin, who had been housed in a so-called Jewish block on the Bahrsplate since November 1944.
In 1945 the camp was filled to around 1000 prisoners from the Neuengamme main camp. Some came from the Belgian town of Meensel-Kiezegem . Work assignments during the construction of the Valentin submarine bunker in Rekum have not yet been documented. According to a list by SS medical officer Alfred Trzebinski of the Neuengamme main camp, a total of 929 male concentration camp prisoners were counted in Blumenthal on March 29, 1945. According to entries in the subcamp death register of the Neuengamme main camp, 123 prisoners perished in the Blumenthal concentration camp.
The camp was closed between April 7 and April 9, 1945. The prisoners were initially deported to the Farge concentration camp and then sent on a death march towards Bremervörde / Sandbostel . The Jewish prisoners were transported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp .
The camp leader of this subcamp was Sergeant Richard-Johann von Endt , who had been assigned by the Navy. When he took over the function, he received the rank of SS-Hauptscharführer .
Memorials
Since 1985 the memorial “Roses for the Victims” inaugurated by Gustav Böhrnsen has been commemorating the people who died here “during the time of fascism”. This memorial was created from a work camp of the peace schools in Bremen and Marzabotto as well as young people from Hungary and Czechoslovakia .
In 2009, the prisoner paths memorial was also created on the former street Zum Müllerloch with paving stones of the former prisoner street between the Bahrsplate and the Bremen wool combing factory.
At the “Roses for the Victims” memorial, the “ Stone of Hope” created by students from the Alwin-Lonke-Straße upper school center was inaugurated by the Bremen Senate President Jens Böhrnsen .
See also
literature
- Raimund Gaebelein: Encounter without Return. In search of the victims of a campaign of revenge. Meensel-Kiezegem - Neuengamme - Bremen 1944-2009. With a greeting by Chris Desaever-Cleuren and an afterword by Detlef Garbe . Donat, Bremen 2009, ISBN 978-3-938275-61-0 .
Web links
- Memorial roses for the victims on friedensschule-bremen.de
- Bremen-Blumenthal subcamp at www.kz-gedenkstaette-neuengamme.de
- Inauguration of the memorial at the former concentration camp satellite camp on weser-kurier.de, article from November 5, 2009
Coordinates: 53 ° 10 ′ 53 ″ N , 8 ° 33 ′ 53 ″ E