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

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• Town: Terezín
• State: Northwest
• Country: Czechia

Organisations involved

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

Current status

Memorials

Memorial location

GPS

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• District: [[]]
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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

Links

• https://www.gedenkstaette-flossenbuerg.de/de/geschichte/aussenlager/leitmeritz
• https://www.ghetto-theresienstadt.de/theresienstadt/gestapogef%C3%A4ngnis-kleine-festung