Flossenbürg concentration camp
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Operational period: 1938–1945.
Capacity
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Current population
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Occupancy
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Year opened
1938
Closed 1945
Figures from official sources · verified 16 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Operator
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Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1938
Region
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Security level
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Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Notable inmates
Arie Ben Menachem1922–2006 · translator- Edmund Wissmann1918–2000
- Ernst Perels1882–1945 · church historian
- Leopold Hofmann1900–1945
- Fritz Machacek1899 · cook
- Willy Olschewski1903–1947
Marcel Callo1921–1945 · typographer
Viktor Matejka1901–1993 · writerViktor Matejka (4 December 1901 â 2 April 1993) was a Viennese politician and writer. He spent most of the Hitler years as a detainee at one of two concentration camps.
- Joseph Eduard Drexel1896–1976 · journalist
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Data completeness
28%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- EHRI Authority Record
- Wikidata entity
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- EHRI Authority List of Camps and Ghettos / USHMM Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos — European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) / United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM)
- Wikidata (Q274354)
- Wikipedia
- Wikimedia Commons
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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World Prisons. (2026). Flossenbürg concentration camp. Retrieved October 17, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/flossenburg-concentration-camp
"Flossenbürg concentration camp." World Prisons. Accessed October 17, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/flossenburg-concentration-camp.
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