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Parschnitz Forced Labor Transport (ID: 45391)
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Description:
Parschnitz, located NE of Prague, was part of a complex of forced-labor camps established in the Sudetenland to supply workers for textile plants in Trautenau (Trutnov) near the Czech-Polish border. Parschnitz became a Gross-Rosen subcamp in March 1944 and ultimately became the largest camp in the complex at Trautenau. The women prisoners worked at the Hasse and Welzel textile plants manufacturing uniforms and gas mask parts for the Wehrmacht.
A total of about 2,500 women prisoners were held at Parschnitz, 60 percent from Poland and the rest Hungarian. According to a book about the Gross-Rosen camp system published by Yad Vashem, the 586 Hungarian prisoners who arrived in this transport received “recycled” numbers that had presumably been assigned to prisoners who had been murdered or died from disease or being overworked.
About 80 percent of the women prisoners in the Gross-Rosen complex were aged 14 to 29 because the SS considered this age group to be the most productive. Prisoners were transferred among camps in the complex and, when they became too sick to work, were transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. (For a more complete description of this camp consult the USHMM’s Encyclopedia of the Holocaust)
While the ultimate fate of these women is not given, and labor conditions in Parschnitz were very poor, given the women’s young age and the short time until the end of the war, many of the women survived and went to displaced person camps. Records on their postwar fate can often be found in other International Tracing Service collections.
A total of about 2,500 women prisoners were held at Parschnitz, 60 percent from Poland and the rest Hungarian. According to a book about the Gross-Rosen camp system published by Yad Vashem, the 586 Hungarian prisoners who arrived in this transport received “recycled” numbers that had presumably been assigned to prisoners who had been murdered or died from disease or being overworked.
About 80 percent of the women prisoners in the Gross-Rosen complex were aged 14 to 29 because the SS considered this age group to be the most productive. Prisoners were transferred among camps in the complex and, when they became too sick to work, were transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. (For a more complete description of this camp consult the USHMM’s Encyclopedia of the Holocaust)
While the ultimate fate of these women is not given, and labor conditions in Parschnitz were very poor, given the women’s young age and the short time until the end of the war, many of the women survived and went to displaced person camps. Records on their postwar fate can often be found in other International Tracing Service collections.
Compiler:
- Ruth Diamond, Ruth
- Frenkel, Fred
- Backsai, Judy
- Peterson, Judy
- Jacobowitz, David
- Edelman, Todd
- Wiesel, Erika
- Pataricza, Dora
Credit:
Arolsen Archives
Document Date:
Oct 1944
Event Date:
1944
Sex:
Female
Language:
German
Nationality:
- Hungarian
- Polish
Number of Pages (Exact):
17
Number of Persons (Exact):
943
Associated Place:
Parschnitz
Keyword:
- Forced labor
- Women prisoners
List Type:
- Transport
- Forced labor
Document Format:
Typed Document
Notes:
Created from the files available in the Arolsen Archives' collection 1.1.11.1/0067/0007-0017, 0052-0054, 0056-0058.
Date Created:
Jun 2017
From Collection
Description:
The Arolsen Archives, formerly International Tracing Service (ITS), Located in Bad Arolsen, Germany, are an international center on Nazi persecution with the world’s most comprehensive archive on the victims and survivors of National Socialism. The collection has information on about 17.5 million people and belongs to the UNESCO’s Memory of the World. It contains documents on the various victim groups targeted by the Nazi regime and is an important source of knowledge for society today.
Only a very small part of Arolsen Archives’ collection is imported in the USHMM’s Holocaust Survivors and Victims database.
Only a very small part of Arolsen Archives’ collection is imported in the USHMM’s Holocaust Survivors and Victims database.
