Benefeld subcamp

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The Benefeld subcamp , which was also called the Bomlitz-Benefeld camp , was a subcamp of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp , known locally as the Sandberg camp . It was located in the south of Benefeld , a place that today belongs to the city of Walsrode in what is now Lower Saxony's Heidekreis district .

Warehouse history

The approximately 1.8 hectare camp only existed for about six weeks. On September 3, 1944, 400 Jewish women of Polish origin, sent from Auschwitz via Bergen-Belsen , arrived at the Benefeld subcamp . Other sources speak of 600 inmates. There are indications that up to 750 female forced laborers were used in this subcamp. The inmates were housed in the then newly built barrack camp Sandberg, which had been built southeast of the very diverse residential and barrack camps for the domestic and foreign workers of the Eibia explosives factory . This was a recently built industrial plant south of Benefeld with 262 buildings; 38 of them were built underground and 56 were surrounded by earth walls. Eibia GmbH was a subsidiary of the chemical factory Wolff & Co. in Bomlitz (based in Walsrode ). The Jewish women had to do heavy physical labor. They are said to have worked in dangerous powder production for a short period of time. The long prison clothes were a problem there, so they were used in the track construction of the Eibia industrial railway.

The camp was closed again on October 18, 1944. Most of the inmates were transported to WASAG in Elsing or to a tent camp at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on October 15, 1944 . In Bergen-Belsen, however, they only stayed a few days. Most of the female prisoners in the Benefeld subcamp were then deported to the Buchenwald subcamp .

memorial

At the so-called foreigners cemetery in the Bomlitz community cemetery, a detailed history and memorial plaque commemorates the fate of the forced laborers and displaced persons who died in the community and their children.

literature

  • Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror. History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps . 9 volumes (published until 2008: 8 volumes). CH Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-406-52960-3 (i. Dr .; index of contents ) Vol. 7: Wewelsburg, Majdanek, Arbeitsdorf, Herzogenbusch (Vught), Bergen-Belsen, Mittelbau-Dora. ISBN 978-3-406-52967-2 , p. 219
  • Andrea Hesse: “Best company” rating - Eibia GmbH for chemical products in Bomlitz , Münster 1995, ISBN 3-8258-2728-3 , pp. 47–50
  • Thorsten Neubert-Preine : Foreign and Forced Labor in Northern Germany. Deployment and supply of foreign workers using the example of industry in Bomlitz / Fallingbostel district. In: Andreas Frewer, Bernhard Bremberger, Günthert Siedbürger (HG.): The " deployment of foreigners" in health care (1939-1945). Historical and ethical problems of Nazi medicine (History and Philosophy of Medicine, Volume 8), Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-515-09201-2 , pp. 33-50, especially pp. 36f.
  • Stefanie Plattner: "Heavy beams and stones ..." The Bergen-Belsen satellite camps. In: Claus Füllberg-Stolberg u. a. (Ed.): Women in concentration camps. Bergen-Belsen; Ravensbrück, Bremen 1994, pp. 73-78; see. A. Hesse, pp. 47-50.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Benz, Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror. History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 7: Niederhagen / Wewelsburg, Lublin-Majdanek, Arbeitsdorf, Herzogenbusch (Vught), Bergen-Belsen, Mittelbau-Dora. CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-52967-2 , p. 12.
  2. ↑ measured in a historical vertical aerial photo (above: south) in a lecture announcement  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from 2010@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.fws-benefeld.de  
  3. ↑ a b c Eibia GmbH - Annex "Walo II", Bomlitz ( Memento of the original from April 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.relektiven.com
  4. ↑ a b powder factory EIBIA Bomlitz on geschichtsspuren.de (formerly lostplaces.de)
  5. ↑ Helge Matthiesen : Geheime Reichssache Eibia , Walsrode 1987, p. 26

Coordinates: 52 ° 54 ′ 9.7 "  N , 9 ° 37 ′ 52.3"  E