Natzweiler-Struthof

Members of the Boys were slave labourers in the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp.

Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp was operated by Nazi Germany. The camp had 64 subcamps.

The Boys were teenage and child-Holocaust survivors, who were brought to the UK after the war for rest and rehabilitation.

The camp was located in the Vosges mountains in Alsace in France. Alsace was annexed by Germany in 1940.

History

The camp had a number of functions as a labour camp, transit camp and place of execution. Few Jewish prisoners were held in the main camp and it is believed that the Boys spent time as slave labourers in its subcamps.

The Boys were brought to the Natzwiler-Struthof complex as slave labourers in 1944-45 and were transited to subcamps of the main camp.

Dissolution & Liberation

^{The former Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp.}

As the French First Army approached the main camp, its subcamps were evacuated by death marches to subcamps of Dachau.

The main camp was liberated by the French on 23 November 1944.

Today, the former camp is preserved as the Struthof Memorial.