Père-Lachaise in Paris in Département de Paris, Île-de-France, France — Western Europe
Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg Concentration Camp Memorial
Photographed By Andrew Ruppenstein, April 19, 2024
1. Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg Concentration Camp Memorial Marker
Oranienburg-Sachsenhausen et ses Kommandos
(Oranienburg-Sachsenhausen and its subcamps)
Topics and series. This memorial is listed in this topic list: War, World II. In addition, it is included in the The Holocaust series list.
Location. 48° 51.62′ N, 2° 23.985′ E. Marker is in Paris, Île-de-France, in Département de Paris. It is in Père-Lachaise. Memorial is on Avenue Circulaire, on the left when traveling north. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Paris, Île-de-France 75020, France. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. Auschwitz III Concentration Camp Memorial (a few steps from this marker); Jewish Children Holocaust Memorial (a few steps from this marker); Natzweiler-Struthof Concentration Camp Memorial (a few steps from this marker); Buchenwald-Dora Concentration Camp Memorial (a few steps from this marker); Auschwitz-Birkenau Extermination Camp Memorial (within shouting distance of this marker); Communist Women’s Memorial (within shouting distance of this marker); Ravensbruck Concentration Camp Memorial (within shouting distance of this marker); Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial (about 90 meters away, measured in a direct line). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Paris.
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Overview: Sachsenhausen or Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg was a German Nazi concentration camp in Oranienburg, Germany, used from 1936 until April 1945, shortly before the defeat of Nazi Germany in May later that year. It mainly held political prisoners throughout World War II. Prominent prisoners included Joseph Stalin's oldest son, Yakov Dzhugashvili; assassin Herschel Grynszpan; Paul Reynaud, the penultimate prime minister of the French Third Republic; Francisco Largo Caballero, prime minister of the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War; the wife and children of the crown prince of Bavaria; Ukrainian nationalist leader Stepan Bandera; and several enemy soldiers and political dissidents.(Submitted on May 5, 2024.)
Sachsenhausen was a labour camp, outfitted with several subcamps, a gas chamber, and a medical experimentation area. Prisoners were treated inhumanely, fed inadequately, and killed openly. After World War II, when Oranienburg was in the Soviet Occupation Zone, the structure was used by the NKVD as NKVD special camp Nr. 7. Today, Sachsenhausen is open to the public as a memorial.
Prisoner abuses: Overall, at least 30,000 inmates died in Sachsenhausen from causes such as exhaustion, disease, malnutrition and pneumonia, as a result of the poor living conditions. Many were executed or died as theresult of brutal medical experimentation.Photographed By Andrew Ruppenstein, April 19, 20242. Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg Concentration Camp Memorial - wide view
In 1937, the SS constructed a Cell Block for the punishment, interrogation, and torture of prisoners. Important people confined there included Martin Niemöller and Georg Elser.
From 1939 until 1943, over 600 homosexual prisoners were killed.
In November 1940, the SS executed 33 Polish prisoners by firing squad. In April 1941, over 550 prisoners were killed under Action 14f13. In the autumn of 1941, over 10,000 Soviet prisoners of war were shot.
In May 1942, the first hangings commenced from gallows in the roll-call area. These continued until 1945.
In May 1942, 71 Dutch resistance fighters and 250 Jewish hostages were executed.
In May 1942, "Station Z" was completed in an industrial yard outside the camp walls. It included prisoner killing rooms, four crematoria, and a gas chamber after 1943. In 1941, an adjacent sand pit was enlarged and made into an "execution trench".
Additional keywords. Holocaust
Photographed By Andrew Ruppenstein, April 19, 2024
3. Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg Concentration Camp Memorial - statue
Credits. This page was last revised on May 5, 2024. It was originally submitted on May 5, 2024, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California. This page has been viewed 42 times since then. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on May 5, 2024, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California.
