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In 1990, the Bulgarian Communist Party set up an inquiry commission into the camps. It found that between 1944 and 1962 there were approximately 100 forced labour camps in a country of 8 million inhabitants. Between 1944 and 1953, some 12,000 men and women passed through these camps, with an additional 5,000 between 1956 and 1962.
The Belene labour camp, also referred to as Belene concentration camp, was part of the network of forced labour camps in Communist Bulgaria. It was located on the Belene Island, between two branches of the Danube river. At the height of Valko Chervenkov's repressions in 1952, the camp had 2,323 inmates - 2,248 men and 75 women.
They were transported by train via transit camps in Bulgaria to Lom on the Danube, then by boat to Vienna, and again by train to Treblinka. [7] The railway that carried the trains transporting Jewish deportees from Greece was constructed by Bulgarian Jewish forced labourers in the winter of late 1942 and early 1943. [19]
Tsvetana Draganova Jermanova (Bulgarian: Цветана Драганова Джерманова, née Mileva; born 20 March 1928) is a Bulgarian anarchist who, during the 1940s and 1950s, was incarcerated in a number of forced labour camps in Communist Bulgaria. As a living survivor of the labour camps, her experiences were documented in her ...
Members of Jewish labour battalion in Bulgaria (1941). All Jewish males who were Bulgarian citizens between the ages of 20 and 46 were conscripted in the Construction corps . Nevertheless, the deportation to extermination camps of nearly all about 48,000 Bulgarian Jews was prevented.
Sisters Separated into Forced Labor Camps During World War II Reunite for 'Last Time' at Ages 96 and 100 (Exclusive) Zoey Lyttle, Carly Breit. December 6, 2024 at 10:31 AM.
Bulgaria and the lands under Bulgarian rule during World War II. The Bulgarian rule in Macedonia, Morava Valley and Western Thrace (Bulgarian: Българско управление в Македония, Поморавието и Западна Тракия) refers to the administration of the newly annexed areas of the Kingdom of Bulgaria during the country's participation in World War II ...
Almost all camps also had field offices for forced labor. In the cases of Vught as well as Amersfoort, there were work details for Philips factories, often under relatively favourable circumstances. Also, the huge construction activities for the 30 German airfields in the Netherlands relied partly upon labour from camps. [126]