Buchenwald-Abteroda-women

Names

Abteroda, code name Anton

Type

Forced Labour Camp

Subcamp of Buchenwald

Dates

Opened: October 1944

Closed: early April 1945

Location

Schacht Abteroda: 50.90520/10.06679 Memorial: 50.90615/10.07452

Street Address: Mahnstrasse

District: Abteroda, Wartburgkreis

Town: Werra-Suhl-Tal

State: Thüringen

Country: Deutschland

Population

249 in early April 1945

Company Names

Bayerische Motorenwerke (BMW)

Victims and Survivors

The inmates appear to be mostly French, Russian, German, Italian, and Polish.

Names of victims and survivors, if these are known.

Staff

This camp was run by the SS.

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

Description

The women were transported from Ravensbrück and women’s subcamps of Buchenwald, such as Torgau, to Abteroda to work for BMW in the production of chemicals for blasting agents. The women’s subcamp in Abteroda was evacuated in early April 1945 to the area of Eisenach.

See also a collection of prisoner lists to and from the Abteroda camp copied from AN-MACVG (originally from the ITS), stored at the archives of the USHMMA, Acc. 1998 A.0045, especially Bu 44 (future expansion)

Sources

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia I-A page 300
• https://www.rabaranowski.de/kz-abteroda-bmw-eisenach/