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Melk concentration camp
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Background
Melk concentration camp (also called Melk labor camp and KZ Melk, A.K.Me.) was a forced labor unit for men, attached to the Mauthausen concentration camp in Mauthausen, Upper Austria. Prisoners there were assigned to the construction of an underground ball-bearing factory for the Steyr-Daimler-Puch AG company. Established on January 11, 1944, approximately 14,390 prisoners were transported to Melk, where at least 4,896 perished. The camp was liberated on May 5, 1945. In January 1944, a Kommando of Mauthausen concentration camp was established in Melk, Lower Austria, in the former abandoned barracks of the Wehrmacht pioneers Freiherr von Birago, then located in the Reichsgau Niederdonau, about 100 km east of Linz.
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Facility profile
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Melk
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Death-row facility
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Notable inmates
- Fritz Ruske1907
- Osmund Faremo1921–1999 · politician
Osmund Faremo (23 November 1921 â 16 April 1999) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He was born in Hylestad Municipality and was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Aust-Agder in 1965, and was re-elected on four occasions.
- Erwin Jakab1928
- Joschi Pohl1926–1948 · circus performer
- Karol Miczajka1919
- Naum Wortman1914–1988 · surgeon
- Friedrich Habermaier1887–1945 · teamster
- Gerhard Schlie1902–1945
- Willi Herbert Kirchner1918–2001 · baker
Showing 9 of 12. Source: Wikidata + Wikipedia.
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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 (Q1719398)
- Wikipedia
- Wikimedia Commons
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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APA
World Prisons. (2026). Melk concentration camp. Retrieved July 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/melk-concentration-camp
Chicago
"Melk concentration camp." World Prisons. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/melk-concentration-camp.
BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-melk-concentration-camp,
author = {{World Prisons}},
title = {Melk concentration camp},
year = {2026},
url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/melk-concentration-camp},
urldate = {2026-07-21}
}