Germany · Gelsenkirchen
Gelsenberg concentration camp
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Background
The Gelsenberg Lager was a subcamp of the concentration camp Buchenwald in Gelsenkirchen-Horst. About 2000 Hungarian Jewish women were held in this subcamp, and were given the task of clearing the area of the Gelsenberg Benzin AG of rubble in the summer 1944. Approximately 150 of them were killed during heavy bombing attacks on the hydrogenation plant in September 1944. A few badly injured survivors were taken to Gelsenkirchen hospitals. After the dissolution of the camp in the middle of September 1944, the remaining Hungarian Jewish women in the camp were sent to the subcamp Soemmerda in Thuringia and the other women were shifted to Essen into another subcamp of the KZ Buchenwald The Gelsenzentrum, a center for urban and contemporary history in Gelsenkirchen, contains documents concerning the history of the subcamp Gelsenberglager.
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Region
Gelsenkirchen
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Data completeness
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Sources
- EHRI Authority Record
- Wikidata entity
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- 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 (Q871173)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). Gelsenberg concentration camp. Retrieved October 24, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/gelsenberg-concentration-camp
"Gelsenberg concentration camp." World Prisons. Accessed October 24, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/gelsenberg-concentration-camp.
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