Gleiwitz I / Auschwitz sub-camps / History / Auschwitz-Birkenau
WEBA sub-camp founded in March 1944 at the rolling stock repair yard in Gliwice (German: Gleiwitz). The first several score prisoners transferred from Auschwitz were sent to work assembling seven wooden residential barracks and …
Gleiwitz concentration camp | Voices of the Holocaust
WEBJanuary-17-1945. Liberated by: Russia. Location: Gliwice, Poland. Alternate Name (s): Gleiwitz I, Gleiwitz II, Gleiwitz III, Gleiwitz IV. Parent: Auschwitz concentration camp. 1.
How a False Flag Sparked World War Two: The Gleiwitz Incident …
WEBAug 31, 2018 · Today, Gleiwitz is known as Gliwice and lies within the borders of Poland. But in 1939 it was a German border town. In 1933, the Gleiwitz Radio Station was identified as an important hub for the dissemination of propaganda and the Germans constructed a new transmission tower and antenna there.
Auschwitz concentration camp - Wikipedia
WEBCoordinates: 50°02′09″N19°10′42″E. "Auschwitz" redirects here. For the city, see Oświęcim. For other uses, see Auschwitz (disambiguation).
Gleiwitz incident - Wikipedia
WEBCoordinates: 50°18′48″N 18°41′21″E. The Gleiwitz incident ( German: Überfall auf den Sender Gleiwitz; Polish: Prowokacja gliwicka) was a false flag attack on the radio station Sender Gleiwitz in Gleiwitz (then Germany and now Gliwice, Poland) staged by Nazi Germany on the night of 31 August 1939.
Arbeitslager Gleiwitz I | Sub Camps of Auschwitz
WEBFeb 1, 2020 · Location: Gliwice. Arbeitslager Gleiwitz I. Name of the camp. Arbeitslager Gleiwitz I. Commandant of the camp. SS-Hauptscharführer Otto Moll: March 1944 to May 1944 and then after returning from Auschwitz II-Birkenau in late summer/autumn 1944. SS-Oberscharführer Friedrich Jansen: sometime between May 1944 and …
A map of Nazi concentration camps and a graph listing numbers …
WEBThis map and graph are taken from U.S. News and World Report on April 3, 1995. Elie Wiesel was a prisoner at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Monowitz-Buna, Gleiwitz, and Buchenwald from May 1944 to April 1945. Cite this item. Item 12 of 14 in the Primary Source Set Elie Wiesel's Night and the Holocaust.
Gleiwitz II / Auschwitz sub-camps / History / Auschwitz-Birkenau
WEBGleiwitz II. Sub-camp remains... Plan of the... A sub-camp created at the Deutsche Gasrusswerke GmbH lampblack factory. Formally, it came into being in May 1944 when the Auschwitz commandant’s office took over a compulsory labor camp for Jews. At first, it held about 250 women and 260 men.
Arbeitslager Gleiwitz IV | Sub Camps of Auschwitz
WEBLocation: Gliwice. Arbeitslager Gleiwitz IV. Name of the camp. Arbeitslager Gleiwitz IV. Commandant of the camp. SS-Oberscharführer Josef Grobert: October 1944 to January 1945. SS-Unterscharführer Otto Arthur Lätsch: June 1944 to October 1944. Number of …
Arbeitslager Gleiwitz III | Sub Camps of Auschwitz
WEBLocation: Gliwice. Arbeitslager Gleiwitz III. Name of the camp. Arbeitslager Gleiwitz III. Other Name of the camp. Häftlingslager Gleiwitzer Hütte. Commandant of the camp. SS-Hauptscharführer Karl Spieker: July 1944 to October 1944. SS-Oberscharführer Josef Grobert: October 1944 to January 1945. Number of SS Guards.
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