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Freiburg was a concentration camp for male and female Jewish prisoners located in the Prussian province of Lower Silesia, in the district of Schweidnitz. The camp was a subcamp of Gross Rosen. According to prisoners' statements, Freiburg opened as a forced labor camp not later than May 1943 and closed not later than November 1944, when the prisoners were evacuated to Waldenburg, a subcamp of Gross Rosen. Redesigned as a concentration camp, the women's camp opened not later than January 9, 1945, and was evacuated not earlier than February 26, 1945 (all dates are according to prisoners' statements). The employers that exploited the prisoners' forced labor were Firma Teichgräber and AEG (Allgemeine Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft.) The prisoners were forced to work in a spinning mill, to convert the mill into a production facility for equipment, and to produce light bulbs for airplanes and submarines. (en-US)

Fonte

Puvogel, Ulrike and Martin Stankowski. Gedenkstätten für die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus: Eine Dokumentation. Band I. Nachdruck: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, 1996. p. 34-45

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• Bassa Slesia (Prussia, Germania : Province)