Brande - '45 Aid Society

Members of the Boys were slave labourers in the Brande labour camp in Poland.

The Brande labour camp was operated by Nazi Germany.

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

The camp was a base for building highways was located in the village of Prądy in southwestern Poland, then Brande in Germany.

History

In 1940, the first Jews were placed in the camp in Prądy.

Prisoners were employed to build the Wrocław-Katowice highway. Brande was one of the 16 camps established to construct the road.

The prisoners worked 12-hour shifts every day of the week.

Those who were unable to work were transferred to the ghettos in Sosnowiec and Będzin or shot in the forest and buried in the sand pits that had been excavated for the construction.

The camp in Prądy was most probably closed on August 31, 1943.

Official Name:

Reichsautobahnlager Brande

Period of operation:

1940-43

Dissolution:

Transfer of workers to other camps

Slave labour:

Road construction

Number of prisoners:

800-900

Type of prisoners:

Male & Female

Memorialisation:

Unknown

Associated Boys:

It is possible that more members of the Boys than the one boy who had been identified were taken as slave labourers to the Brande labour camp. Members of their family and friends may also have died in the camp.

Kurt Klappholz

Associated Camps:

Other labour camps in which members of the Boys were held that have so far been identified:

Bełžec Lubelski

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