|
Fate of Women Forced Laborers who Worked at the
KZ Meltheuer (Flossenburg Subcamp)
BACKGROUND
Background history from Project Muse, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933 – 1945 (https://muse.jhu.edu/document/1707):
“On September 29, 1944, the Army High Command, in agreement with the armored car main committee, ordered the moving of a subsidiary of the Vomag AG at Plauen/Vogtland to the net and curtain factory at Mehltheuer. This company, on the basis of its request for additional workers, was allocated a prisoner group of 200 women and girls from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on December 2. They were primarily Polish Jews, most of whom had been sent from the Łódź ghetto to Auschwitz and from there, after about two weeks, to Bergen-Belsen. Several German Jews, such as the camp elder (Lagerältester) from Mehltheuer, Eugenia L., were also recorded as Poles on the transport list. The women and girls received the registration numbers 59454 through 59653 from the Flossenbürg main camp. The prisoners had the following composition, broken down by age: 14 born between 1900 and 1909, 65 born between 1910 and 1919, 80 born between 1920 and 1924, 38 born between 1925 and 1929, 1 born in 1930, and 2 with no information.”
“An expansion of the Mehltheuer subcamp took place on March 9, 1945, with the arrival of a group of 146 female prisoners from the closed-down subcamp at the Siemens-Schuckert Werke (Siemens-Schuckert Works, SSW) in Nürnberg. It was these female Hungarian Jews who, after the deportation to Auschwitz, had been brought to Nürnberg, specifically to the Flossenbürg subcamp Nürnberg (Siemens-Schuckert Werke). They already wore the Flossenbürg registration numbers from the series 55573 through 56290. They received their accommodation in a barracks on the factory grounds, although some of them were also employed in production outside the Vomag factory. “
“During the entire life of the camp, despite the inadequate food supply, there was only one fatality. After the liberation of the women by the U.S. troops on April 16, 1945, they were brought, on May 1, 1945, to another camp, the Rentzschmühle on the Elster River, which the Americans had set up as a hospital.”
DATABASE
This database includes 431 records from a variety of lists:
Source Lists:
- List 1 - Transport on 2 December 1944 from Bergen Belsen.
- List 2 - Individual transfer on 17-Mar-1945 at Flossenbürg
- List 3 - Prisoners from Nürnberg.
- List 4 - Nurnberg prisoners not registered or registered under varying names. According to the Nurnberg transport list from Auschwitz Birkenau.
- List 5 - Prisoners on the Rentzschmule list who have not yet been assigned to the Meltheuer camp
- List 6 - Unregistered Nuremberg prisoners whose transfer to Holleischein or Mehtltheur is unknown
The fields for this database are as follows (data includes spelling variations and alternative names/dates):
- Surname(s)
- Given Name(s)
- Maiden Name(s)
- Date(s) of Birth
- City of Birth
- Last Residence(s)
- Nationality
- Flossenburg Prisoner Number
- Status at Liberation
- Displaced Persons (DP) Camp
- Source (from enumerated lists above)
- Documents Code (from original source document)
- Comments
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
For more information, please see the page for the Flossenburg Mehltheuer subcamp on the Flossenburg Research Center website at https://www.gedenkstaette-flossenbuerg.de/en/history/satellite-camps/mehltheuer and the website for the US Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933 – 1945, at (https://muse.jhu.edu/document/1707).
Thank you to Nolan Altman, Director of Data Acquisition and Coordinator of Holocaust Database, for his continued devotion and dedication to JewishGen's important work.
This database can be searched via the JewishGen Holocaust Database or the JewishGen Unified Search
August 2025
|
