Flossenbürg-Helmbrechts

Names

• Helmbrechts

Type

• Concentration camp
• Subcamp of Flossenbürg
• Forced labour camp

Dates

(YYYY-MM-DD)

• Opened:
• Closed:

Locations

Camp location

50.231817/11.709918

geo:50.231817,11.709918 (link for navigation systems)

• Street Address: Oderstraße
• District: Unterweißenbach
• Town: Helmbrechts
• State: Bayern
• Country: Germany

Organisations involved

• [[]]

Current status

Memorials

Memorial at the Helmbrechts cemetary.

Helmbrechts cemetery

Helmbrechts-Volary Death March memorial stone and To the Victims of the Sub camp Helmbrechts of the Concentration camp Flossenburg 1944/45

50.242567/11.717461

geo:50.242567,11.717461 (link for navigation systems)

• Street Address: Schwarzenbacher Straße
• District: [[]]
• Town: Helmbrechts
• State: Bayern
• Country: Germany

https://www.gedenkstaette-flossenbuerg.de/de/recherche/gedenkorte/helmbrechts

Gedenkstätte "Langer Gang", Todesmarsch Helmbrechts - Volary 1945

Memorial for the death march from Flossenbürg-Helmbrechts to Volary in Schwarzenbach an der Saale.

• This location may not be accurate. More research is needed. (isn't placed exactly, should be improved later)

50.221612/11.936162

geo:50.221612,11.936162 (link for navigation systems)

• Street Address: Schwarzenbacher Bahnhofsplatz 2
• District: [[]]
• Town: Schwarzenbach an der Saale
• State: Bayern
• Country: Germany

https://langer-gang.schwarzenbach-saale.de/

Outstanding questions

• The Memorial has the GPS coordinates pointing to the middle of Helmbrechts, next to the Freiwillige Feuerwehr at on Josef-Witt-Straße 8 (https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=50.235887033168666%2C%2011.71902372992127#map=15/50.23589/11.71902). However, the photo showing the former camp location shows the Weichselweg, Feldweg, Oderstraße (https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?lat=50.232085&lon=11.709964#map=19/50.232085/11.709964). It is likely that the photo shows the correct location but confirmation would be good.

Resources

Bibliography

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia Volume I: part A page 608
• Das Nationalsozialistische Lagersystem, (CCP), page 220, 562
• Verzeichnis der Haftstätten unter dem Reichsführer-SS 1933-1945, page 106
• Klaus Rauh, “Helmbrechts—Aussenlager des KZ Flossenbürg 1944–1945,” MC 4 (2003): 117, citing Sta. Hof, Supplementary File A, p. 55.