The Jewish Camp at Brusty-Dziemiany in Yad Vashem Studies, Volume XXII

Marek Orski

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The Jewish Subsidiary of the Stutthof Concentration Camp (Konzentrationslager Stutthof) at Brusy-Dziemiany (1944-1945)

The camp at Brusy–Dzemiany (the Bruss labor camp) was set up by order of the Stutthof camp command on August 24, 1944. Its first prisoners, 500 Jewish women, arrived from the Kaiserwald concentration camp near Riga via Stutthof, which was overcrowded at this time. Most of the women were placed in a camp at Dzemiany (Sophienwalde), the rest in the buildings of a monastery at Brusy. The prisoners were forced to construct the SS testing range, and subsisted under terrible working and living conditions. Those who perished while working were replaced by other women prisoners. In February 1945, the SS began to evacuate the camp. Before the evacuation began, some eighty prisoners were shot. The report here is partially based on eyewitnesses’ accounts. 

The Jewish Subsidiary of the Stutthof Concentration Camp (Konzentrationslager Stutthof) at Brusy-Dziemiany (1944-1945)

The camp at Brusy–Dzemiany (the Bruss labor camp) was set up by order of the Stutthof camp command on August 24, 1944. Its first prisoners, 500 Jewish women, arrived from the Kaiserwald concentration camp near Riga via Stutthof, which was overcrowded at this time. Most of the women were placed in a camp at Dzemiany (Sophienwalde), the rest in the buildings of a monastery at Brusy. The prisoners were forced to construct the SS testing range, and subsisted under terrible working and living conditions. Those who perished while working were replaced by other women prisoners. In February 1945, the SS began to evacuate the camp. Before the evacuation began, some eighty prisoners were shot. The report here is partially based on eyewitnesses’ accounts. 

Products specifications
ISSN 0084-3296
Year 1992
Catalog No. 199209
No. of Pages 14 pp.
Format Electronic article in Yad Vashem Studies, Volume XXII, pp. 273-286, Edited by Aharon Weiss
Publisher Yad Vashem
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