Kurzbach

Member of the Boys were taken as slave labours to the Kurzbach labour camp a subcamp of the Gross Rosen concentration camp.

The Gross Rosen concentration camp was operated by Nazi Germany.  The camp had 100 subcamps located in what is now the Czech Republic, Germany and Poland. 

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

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The forced labour camp was located in the village of Bukołowo near Breslau, in Germany, now Wrocław, Poland.

There were extreme shortages of food in the camp that led to many deaths. Dead prisoners were most frequently buried at night in the nearby woods.

The Kurzbach labour camp prisoners did murderously hard jobs (cutting down trees, digging ditches) called for by the Unternehmen Barthold and its Einsatzstab Kraschnitz.

The SS oversaw the camp, and the Organisation Todt (OT) supervised the prisoners’ work. The management staff was made up of men and women.

Dissolution

The subcamp’s evacuation began in late January 1945, when 200 to 500 women were escorted out. The sick and weak were escorted out later. Those who were unfit to march were killed.

The camp’s prisoners were evacuated to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The number of women who completed the journey and reached its destination has not been determined.