SS labor camp Dorohucza

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The SS labor camp Dorohucza was located near the village of Dorohucza , about five kilometers northwest of the Polish village of Trawniki . It was located in Świdnik County in the Lublin Voivodeship . The camp was built directly on the banks of the Wieprz River and existed between March 13, 1943 and November 3, 1943. In mid-September 1943, the SS labor camp Dorohucza was subordinated to the Majdanek concentration camp as a satellite camp .

Purpose of the camp

The SS set up this labor camp in order to exploit the labor of Jewish prisoners as part of Aktion Reinhardt as a result of “ extermination through work ”. The forced laborers , mainly transferred from the Sobibor extermination camp to Dorohucza, were used to mine peat .

Warehouse construction

The Dorohucza camp consisted of three U-shaped barracks of about the same size, which came from the Treblinka extermination camp . This area intended for the prisoners was surrounded by a barbed wire fence. On the fourth side, outside the fence, was the barracks used by SS personnel. To the left or right of this building, another barrack building for the Ukrainian guards, the so-called Trawniki men , and the kitchen were built. In front of the camp commandant's office there was a permanently installed machine gun that could be used to shoot the prisoners at any time. The entire camp could be monitored from a watchtower located directly on the river bank.

Organizational matters

The camp commandant was SS-Hauptscharführer Gottfried Schwarz , who was promoted to SS-Untersturmführer on June 21, 1943. Heinrich Himmler justified this with the "great merits" of Schwarz in implementing the Reinhardt campaign. The last commandant of Dorohucza was Fritz Tauscher . The prisoners were monitored by Trawniki men under the direction of Karl Diner, the Kapos were of Polish and Dutch origin.

Warehouse history

The SS labor camp Dorohucza was set up in early March 1943 and was designed for around 500 Jewish prisoners. A total of around 700 Dutch Jews were interned here, who were transferred to this camp immediately after their arrival in Sobibor. Since no names of the internees were recorded in Sobibor, the arrival in Dorohucza is only certain from letters from 171 Dutch people. The proportion of Dutch forced laborers is said to have been around 50 percent, with the other half of the prisoners being Polish Jews. The Polish inmates came either directly from the Warsaw ghetto or from the central Trawniki forced labor camp . The age of the camp inmates was between 16 and 50 years.

The first Dutch Jews arrived at the camp on March 13, 1943, and groups of around 80 people usually reached Dorohucza. Only 16 Dutch Jews, including 13 women, survived the Dorohucza labor camp. The prisoners were forced to cut peat in the neighboring moors.

The living conditions in the camp were extremely poor, so that the life expectancy of the forced laborers was only a few weeks. The few survivors say that they had to sleep on the floor of the barracks. The damaged buildings hardly offered any protection from the weather and the hygienic conditions were extremely poor. There was no drinking water for the inmates, only a black substance called coffee twice a day. In addition, the inmates were given soup once a day, which consisted of a mixture of one liter of water, a little sauerkraut and a few strips of almost transparent dog meat. The river's water was inedible because it was so heavily contaminated that one could get typhoid after drinking it. The river water was only used to cleanse the body.

On November 3, 1943, all the Jews in the labor camp were shot. All 144 of them were Dutch. The action, which affected all Jewish inmates of the labor and extermination camps in the Lublin area, was known as the harvest festival . The camp was then closed.

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  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Dorohucza at www.deathcamps.org
  2. ↑ 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. 99.
  3. ↑ a b c http://holocaustcontroversies.blogspot.com/2007/12/mattogno-and-graf-reverse-logic.html
  4. ↑ http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2004/April/04_crm_234.htm
  5. ^ Ernst Klee : Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. , Frankfurt am Main 2007. S. 572.
  6. ↑ Barbara Schwindt: The Majdanek Concentration and Extermination Camp : Functional Change in the Context of the "Final Solution", Königshausen & Neumann, 2005
  7. ↑ http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007397
  8. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from June 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.essen-stell-sich-quer.de
  9. ↑ http://www.tnn.pl/himow_fragment.php?idhr=2968

literature

  • Jules Schelvis : Binnen de poorten. Een Verslag van twee Jaar Duitse Vernietigings- en Concentratiekampen . 8. Pressure. De Bataafsche Leeuw, Amsterdam 2007, ISBN 978-90-6707-626-5 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 36 ″  N , 22 ° 59 ′ 38 ″  E