Lindele camp

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The Lindele camp was a prisoner of war and internment camp in Biberach an der Riss (South Württemberg) during the Second World War . Most of the prisoners were deportees from Guernsey , one of the Channel Islands . In November 1944, 149 Oriental Jews with British passports who were originally imprisoned in the Italian Giado concentration camp in Libya were imprisoned here. In January 1945, 133 prisoners from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp were added, mostly Dutch Jews. The Jews who died in Biberach during this time were buried in the Jewish cemetery in Laupheim in 1945 . The camp was liberated by the French army on April 23, 1945.

The camp was named after a moraine hill planted with linden trees - the "Lindele". The training building of the Biberach riot police is located on the former camp site .

Since 1997 there has been a town partnership between Biberach and Guernsey.

literature

  • Reinhold Adler: It wasn't just “Carnival in August”. The internment camp Biberach an der Riss 1942–1945. History - background . Municipal Archives Biberach; Society for home care, Biberach an der Riß 2002, ISBN 3-9806818-2-3
  • Reinhold Adler, Joachim Guderlei: The "Lindele Camp" in World War II , in: Heimatkundliche Blätter for the district of Biberach 7, no. 2, 1984, pp. 26–32.
  • Marietta Moskin: Nearly a Hair - Survival in the Third Reich . Verlagsgruppe RANDOM HOUSE, C. Bertelsmann - as paperback, 2005, ISBN 3-570-30212-1 - as e-book, ISBN 3-89480-857-8

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Reinhold Adler: Biberach and Laupheim: The Lindele camp and the Jewish cemetery in World War II and in the post-war period. Society for History and Remembrance V., Laupheim, accessed on October 4, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Jewish history in Biberach in: Alemannia Judaica
  3. ↑ Lindele prisoner of war and internment camp (accessed October 4, 2018)

Coordinates: 48 ° 6 ′ 29 ″  N , 9 ° 46 ′ 37 ″  E