Gelsenberg Lager

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The Gelsenberg Lager was a subcamp of the concentration camp Buchenwald in Gelsenkirchen-Horst

In this subcamp about 2000 Hungarian Jewesses were accommodated.The girls and women shoud clear the area of the Gelsenberg Benzin AG of rubble in the summer 1944. With heavy bomb attacks on the hydrogenation plant in September 1944 about 150 of them came to death, a few of them survived heavyhurt in Gelsenkirchener hospitals

After the dissolution of the camp in the middle of September 1944 all other Hungarian Jewesses in the camp were send to the subcamp soemmerda in Thuringia all remaining women were shifted to Essen into another subcamp of the KZ Buchenwald

With the history of the subcamp Gelsenberglager the Gelsenzentrum, a documentationcenter for urban and contemporary history in Gelsenkirchen concerns itself. An essay Das Gelsenberg Lager (PDF) and a list with the names of the victims is accessible on the web page of GELSENZENTRUM

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