Flossenbürg-Leitmeritz

Names

• Leitmeritz
• Leitmeritz Elsabe
• Leitmeritz Richard II
• Leitmeritz SS-Kdo B 5
• "Theresienstadt" (Die Häftlinge waren anfangs in Theresienstadt untergebracht, daher wurde das Kdo auch "Theresienstadt" genannt.)
• B 5

Type

• Concentration camp
• Subcamp of Flossenbürg
• Forced labour camp

• Transit camp (at the end of the war)

Dates

(YYYY-MM-DD)

• Opened: 1944-03-24
• Closed: 1945-05-08

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

External work details (Aussenkommando)

• Elsabe
• Richard I
• Richard II

Subcamps (Aussenlager)

• LobositzUnited States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia Volume I: part A page 627</ref>

Locations

Camp location

Gestapo prison, Kleine Festung, Theresienstadt

Entrance of the Theresienstadt Kleine Festung Gestapo prison.

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

50.513809/14.166277

geo:50.513809,14.166277 (link for navigation systems)

• Street Address: [[]]
• District: [[]]
• Town: Terezín
• State: Northwest
• Country: Czechia

Richard I

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

50.538851/14.100633

geo:50.538851,14.100633 (link for navigation systems)

• Street Address: Za nemocnicí
• District: [[]]
• Town: Litoměřice
• State: Northwest
• Country: Czechia

Richard II

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

50.543727/14.104090

geo:50.543727,14.104090 (link for navigation systems)

• Street Address: [[]]
• District: [[]]
• Town: Litoměřice
• State: Northwest
• Country: Czechia

Crematorium Richard

Flossenbürg-Leitmeritz subcamp crematorium in Leitmeritz.

50.534784/14.115836

• Street Address: Michalovická
• District: [[]]
• Town: Litoměřice
• State: Northwest
• Country: Czechia

Vila Pfaffenhof

50.536140/14.101105

geo:50.536140,14.101105 (link for navigation systems)

• Street Address: Michalovická 675/1
• District: Veveří
• Town: Litoměřice
• State: Northwest
• Country: Czechia

Organisations involved

• Auto Union AG
• Elsabe AG
• Kalkspat K.G.
• Osram

Current status

Memorials

Memorial location

GPS

geo: (link for navigation systems)

• Street Address: [[]]
• District: [[]]
• Town: [[]]
• State: [[]]
• Country: [[]]

No memorial known at this time.

Resources

Bibliography

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia Volume I: part A page 626
• Das Nationalsozialistische Lagersystem, (CCP), page 44
• Verzeichnis der Haftstätten unter dem Reichsführer-SS 1933-1945, page 112
• Miroslava Benes̆ová-Langhamerová Das Konzentrationslager in Leitmeritz und seine Häftlinge TSD (1995): 217–240
• Miroslava Benes̆ová-Langhamerová První transport vĕzn̆u pro stavbu Richard v Litomĕr̆icích TL 22 (1994): 102–107
• Památník Terezín, Koncentrac̆ní tábor Litomĕr̆ice 1944–1945 (Terezín, 1995)
• Miroslav Kárný ‘Vernichtung durch Arbeit’ in Leitmeritz: Die SS-Führungsstäbe in der deutschen Kriegswirtschaft,” 1999 4 (1993): 37–61.

Links

• https://www.gedenkstaette-flossenbuerg.de/de/geschichte/aussenlager/leitmeritz
• https://www.ghetto-theresienstadt.de/theresienstadt/gestapogef%C3%A4ngnis-kleine-festung
• https://www.pamatnik-terezin.cz/crematorium-of-the-litomerice-concentration-camp
• https://www.hrady.cz/palac-dum-vila-pfaffenhof

Custodians

• An almost

complete documentary collection on the prisoners in the Leitmeritz subcamp is to be found in the archives AG-T and AG-F. Both archives hold documents on the use of the prisoners as well as the SS guards. The SHStA-(C) holds documents relating to the relocation of the Auto Union AG to Leitmeritz. The relocation fi les of Osram are held in the LA-B. The SÚA has a number of disparate collections on the Leitmeritz complex. In addition, there are extensive investigation and judicial fi les held in the BA-L (formerly ZdL).

Outstanding questions

Discrepancies and errata

• The GPS coordinates from the Flossenbürg memorial seem to point to the center of Litoměřice, this might not have been the actual location of the camp(s).