Memorial to the victims of Lieberose forced labor camp

The Lieberose forced labor camp was a Nazi forced labor camp[1] situated near the village of Lieberose in Brandenburg, Germany. It was a subcamp of Sachsenhausen concentration camp, near Cottbus.[2][3]

Near the end of the war, Jewish prisoners were sent on a death march towards Sachsenhausen.[4]

A mass grave, containing the bodies of hundreds of victims of the Nazis, has been found near the site of the camp.[5][6] The mass grave is believed to be the largest mass grave in Germany which was not itself within a concentration camp.[5]

References

  1. Gilbert, Martin (2002). The Routledge Atlas of the Holocaust. Routledge. p. 212. ISBN 9780415281454.
  2. Reed, Walter W. (2015). The Children of La Hille: Eluding Nazi Capture during World War II. Syracuse University Press. p. 193. ISBN 9780815653387.
  3. "The List of the Camps". jewishgen.org. Retrieved 2016-09-16.
  4. Gilbert, Martin (2002). The Routledge Atlas of the Holocaust. Routledge. p. 212. ISBN 9780415281454., Map 277 "A Death March From Lieberose, December 1944"
  5. 1 2 "German authorities to excavate suspected WWII mass grave". Deutsche Welle. 2009-04-22. Retrieved 2016-09-15.
  6. Meiritz, Annett (May 15, 2009). "Legends of a Mass Grave: The Village and the Nazi Labor Camp". Spiegel Online. Retrieved 2016-09-15.


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