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

Inscription.
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. Memorial is in Paris, Île-de-France, in Département de Paris. It is in Père-Lachaise. It is on Avenue Circulaire, on the left when traveling north. Touch for map. Memorial is in this post office area: Paris, Île-de-France 75020, France. Touch for directions.

Regionally, it is in the North Atlantic Region,

Europe,

the European Union,

Atlantic Europe,

the Schengen Area,

Western Europe,

a coastal Mediterranean country,

and the Western World.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once a French colony

and also the Roman Empire.

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

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(a few steps from this marker); Buchenwald-Dora Concentration Camp Memorial (a few steps from this marker); Dachau Memorial (a few steps from this marker); Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp Memorial (within shouting distance of this marker); Auschwitz-Birkenau Extermination Camp Memorial (within shouting distance of this marker); Nous sommes 900 Français / We are 900 Frenchmen (Convoy 73) Memorial (within shouting distance of this marker). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Paris.

Also see . . . Sachsenhausen concentration camp (Wikipedia).

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
Photographed by Andrew Ruppenstein, April 19, 2024

2. Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg Concentration Camp Memorial - wide view
the crown prince of Bavaria; Ukrainian nationalist leader Stepan Bandera; and several enemy soldiers and political dissidents.

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 the result of brutal medical experimentation.

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
Photographed by Andrew Ruppenstein, April 19, 2024

3. Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg Concentration Camp Memorial - statue
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".

(Submitted on May 5, 2024.)

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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 170 times since then and 13 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on May 5, 2024, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California.