Provincial insane sanatorium in Owinsk
The Provincial Insane Sanatorium in Owinsk was a psychiatric facility in Owińska (German Owinsk, from 1943 to 1945 Treskau) in Poland . It is located about 10 km north of Poznań (German Posen).
history
The institute was founded in 1838.
World War II period
The German troops occupied Owinska in mid-September 1939. A representative of the German "Gau administration" in Posen took over the management. demanded the list of all patients and forbade their discharge. The transfer of the patients was announced. The Lange Sonderkommando was requested.
About 100 patients of German origin were transferred to an institution in Poznan.
The majority of the patients were taken to Fort VII in Poznan and then murdered.
The emptied institution was used as quarters for the SS . The SS-Oberscharführer Steiner reported on the move on October 22, 1940. With effect from August 15, 1940, the 12th SS-Totenkopf-Standard, Posen-Treskau, was dissolved. 2 companies were handed over to SS-Totenkopf-Standarte K ( Kirkenes ), another 650 men to SS-Totenkopf-Standarte 4 in The Hague .
post war period
The clinic buildings have been empty and derelict since 1993.
See also
literature
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Owinska. on deathcamps.corg
- ↑ Zdzislaw Jaroszewski (Ed.): The murder of the mentally ill in Poland 1939-1945. Warsaw, 1993, p. 85.
- ^ Walter Grode : German "Euthanasia" policy in Poland during the Second World War. In: Psychology and Social Criticism , No. 16, 1992
- ↑ Reinhard Tenhumberg: Owinska. (accessed 2018)
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 40.4 ″ N , 16 ° 58 ′ 46.7 ″ E