Hohenbruch

Name

Hohenbruch

Type

Arbeitserziehungslager

Dates

Opened: August 1939

Closed: January 1945

Location

GPS: 54.9765/21.4247

Monument: to be located, see Description.

Street Address: unkown

District: unknown

City: Гро́мово

Area: Калинингра́д

Country: Россия

Victims and Survivors

People with Polish, Jewish, Russian, Latvian, Czech, Belgian, Italian, French, German and other nationalities were interned here, as well as Sinti.

Names of victims and survivors, if these are known.

• Seweryn Pieniężny
• Władysław Gębik

Staff

This camp was run by the Gestapo (Königsberg).

Names of SS and other people involved in the exploitation, including convictions where applicable.

Description

Regarding the Monument:

In April 2006, a memorial to the victims of the Hohenbruch concentration camp in today's Kaliningrad Oblast was erected in the forest near the Curonian Lagoon between the villages of Polessk and Slavsk. The text on the memorial plaque was written by the Polish memorial institution Council for the Preservation of the Memory of Struggle and Martyrdom. (from https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/KZ_Hohenbruch)

Sources

• Wolfgang Benz, Barbara Distel (Hrsg.): Der Ort des Terrors. Geschichte der nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslager. Band 9: Arbeitserziehungslager, Ghettos, Jugendschutzlager, Polizeihaftlager, Sonderlager, Zigeunerlager, Zwangsarbeiterlager. C.H. Beck, München 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-57238-8, S. 612f.