Flossenbürg-Meissen-Neuhirschstein

Names

• Meissen-Neuhirschstein
• Meissen
• Außenlager Neuhirschstein
• Haus Elbe

Type

• Concentration camp
• Subcamp of Flossenbürg
• Forced labour camp

Dates

(YYYY-MM-DD)

• Opened:
• Closed:

Internal and external work details and, if applicable, (known) subcamps

External work details (Aussenkommando)

• As witnesses from that time report, some prisoners were also lent short term to local businesses. For example, two prisoners, one of them an American, supposedly worked in a carpenter’s workshop in nearby Bahra

Locations

Camp location

• This location may not be accurate. More research is needed.
• The prisoners were housed in stables and barns around the castle and had to suffer under the most brutal conditions.

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• Street Address: Schloßstraße
• District: [[]]
• Town: Meißen
• State: Sachsen
• Country: Germany

Organisations involved

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Current status

Memorials

Memorial location

No memorial known at this time.

Resources

Bibliography

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia Volume I: part A page 633
• Das Nationalsozialistische Lagersystem, (CCP), page 239, 574
• Verzeichnis der Haftstätten unter dem Reichsführer-SS 1933-1945, page 113