Flossenbürg-Gröditz

Names

• Gröditz
• Groeditz

Type

• Concentration camp
• Subcamp of Flossenbürg
• Forced labour camp

Dates

(YYYY-MM-DD)

• Opened:
• Closed:

Locations

Camp location

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

51.407681/13.445895

geo:51.407681,13.445895 (link for navigation systems)

• Street Address: Wolfgang-Mischnick-Straße
• District: [[]]
• Town: Gröditz
• State: Sachsen
• Country: Germany

Organisations involved

• Mitteldeutsche Stahlwerke GmbH

Victims and Survivors

Population information

• Prisoners were transported to Gröditz from Dachau, Mauthausen and its subcamp Gusen (which one?) and Auschwitz subcamp Laurahütte

Current status

Memorials

GPS

geo: (link for navigation systems)

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

No memorial known at this time.

Outstanding questions

• Flossenbürg memorial puts the location at 51.411081,13.447155 which is Hauptstrasse Gröditz near the town center. It seems that the steel mill was not there, maybe the camp location was there? More research is needed.

Resources

Bibliography

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia Volume I: part A page 603
• Das Nationalsozialistische Lagersystem, (CCP), page 239
• Verzeichnis der Haftstätten unter dem Reichsführer-SS 1933-1945, page 105
• “Studien zur Geschichte der faschistischen Konzentrationslager 1933/34” (Ph.D. diss., Akademie der Wissenschaft in der DDR, Berlin [East], 1987).

Links

• https://www.gedenkstaette-flossenbuerg.de/de/geschichte/aussenlager/groeditz
• https://www.kuladig.de/Objektansicht/BKM-32002125
• https://krijgsgevangen.nl/arb-kdo-groditz-kubler-niethammer-en-mdsw/
• https://elbe-roeder.de/wunderbar/regionale-besonderheiten/industriegeschichte-groeditz-stahlwerk