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Remains of prisoners at Klooga concentration camp. When the Soviet army began its advance through Nazi-occupied Estonia in September 1944, the SS started to evacuate the camp. Many prisoners were sent west by sea to the Stutthof concentration camp near Danzig and to Freiburg in Schlesien, present day Ĺwiebodzice, then in Germany, now Poland.
United Kingdom: The World Prison Brief (WPB) site does not list an incarceration rate for the United Kingdom as a whole, that includes all its territories, and other subnational areas, etc.: England and Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Anguilla, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Jersey, British Virgin Islands. They ...
October 14, 1943 – Several dozen Soviet prisoners at Sobibor Extermination Camp, all Jewish, led by Lieutenant Alexander Pechersky, who had arrived the month prior, participated in a mass uprising at the camp. Several of the camp staff were killed, and the prisoners fled into the surrounding woods.
Jägala concentration camp was a labour camp of the Estonian Security Police and SD during the German occupation of Estonia during World War II. The camp was established in August 1942 on a former artillery range of the Estonian Army near the village of Jägala, Estonia. It existed from August 1942 to August 1943.
Many prisoners were sent to other camps located in Poland or Germany; others were enrolled as volunteers for the German army. [11] According to former prisoners, prison guards released some inmates before German forces left Tallinn. [5] The Soviet offensive followed and the Red Army captured Tallinn on 22 September 1944. [26]
The evacuation of about 50,000 prisoners from the Stutthof camp system in northern Poland began in January 1945. About 5,000 prisoners from Stutthof subcamps were marched to the Baltic Sea coast, forced into the water, and machine gunned. The rest of the prisoners were marched in the direction of Lauenburg in eastern Germany. They were cut off ...
In September, Britain’s prison population grew by 665 – more than the number of prisoners who were sent from Belgium to the Netherlands over six years.
General map of deportation routes and camps. Holocaust trains were railway transports run by the Deutsche Reichsbahn and other European railways under the control of Nazi Germany and its allies, for the purpose of forcible deportation of the Jews, as well as other victims of the Holocaust, to the Nazi concentration, forced labour, and extermination camps.