Buchenwald-Ohrdruf

Names

• Ohrdruf
• Codename SIII

Type

• Subcamp of Buchenwald
• Forced labour camp

List of (known) subcamps, internal and external work details

Subcamps (Aussenlager)

• Buchenwald-Ohrdruf/Crawinkel
• Buchenwald-Ohrdruf/Espenfeld

Dates

(YYYY-MM-DD)

• Opened: 1944-11
• Closed:

Locations

Camp location

• This location may not be accurate. More research is needed.

50.86918/10.83184

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• Town: Ohrdruf
• State: Thüringen
• Country: Deutschland

Organisations involved

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Victims and Survivors

Population information

The camp population, mostly prisoners transferred from Buchenwald but also from Sachsenhausen, Flossenbürg, Stutthof, Plaszow, Dachau, and Auschwitz II-Birkenau (including many Hungarian Jews), represented many nationalities. There were French, Belgian, German, Hungarian, Czech, Latvian, Italian, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, and Yugoslavian prisoners. There were political prisoners, so-called asocials, Berufsverbrecher (professional criminals), common-law prisoners, homosexuals, and Jews. According to the postwar testimony of Buchenwald labor allocation chief SS-Hauptsturmführer Albert Schwartz, Office Group D of the SS-Business Administration Main Office (WVHA) issued an order that Russian prisoners of war (POWs) would be appropriated to Ohrdruf in late 1944.

Current status

Memorials

GPS

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No memorial known at this time.