Mittelsteine

Mittelsteine concentration camp
Mittelsteine concentration camp
Nazi concentration camp
	View of Mittelsteine railway junction (2009); c. 2.12 km (1.32 mi) from the camp as the crow flies
	Location of Mittelsteine in present-day Poland
Coordinates	50°30′55″N 16°29′2″E / 50.51528°N 16.48389°E
Other names	AL Mittelsteine; Arbeitslager Mittelsteine; Gr-R/Mitt; Lager Mittelsteine;
Known for	Production of V-1 and V-2 rocket components
Location	Voivodeship Route DW 387; Ścinawka Średnia, Poland
Operated by	German Schutzstaffel (SS)
Original use	Barracks custom-built for the purpose
First built	1942
Operational	23 Aug. 1944 – 30 April 1945
Number of gas chambers	none
Inmates	Women of Jewish ethnicity (only deportees from Hungary and Poland)
Number of inmates	300–1,000
Liberated by	Evacuated by the Nazis prior to the arrival of Allied forces
Notable inmates	Marietta Moskin; Sara Selver-Urbach; Ruth Minsky Sender; Sara Zyskind;
Notable books	S. Selver-Urbach, Through the Window of My Home; M. Moskin, I am Rosemarie; S. Zyskind, Stolen Years; R. M. Sender, The Cage; R. M. Sender, To Life;
Website	www.gross-rosen.eu/historia-kl-gross-rosen/filie-obozu-gross-rosen/; scinawka.republika.pl/historia.html

The Mittelsteine concentration camp was a Nazi Arbeitslager or slave-labour camp functional on the territory of Nazi Germany during the latter part of the Second World War, now at Ścinawka Średnia in south-western Poland.

It was originally established in 1942, but was operated formally for 250 days (8 months and a week) between 23 August 1944 and 30 April 1945 (the latter being the date of its liquidation) as an all-female subcamp of Gross-Rosen.^[1]^[2]

^ Edward Basałygo, 900 lat Jeleniej Góry: Tędy przeszła historia: Kalendarium wydarzeń w Kotlinie Jeleniogórskiej i jej okolicach, Jelenia Góra, 2010, p. 240. Basałygo cites the official records of the German Ministry of Justice for the dates of the camp's existence (23 August 1944–30 April 1945). (See Bibliography for online link.)
^ Roman Mogilanski, comp. & ed., The Ghetto Anthology: A Comprehensive Chronicle of the Extermination of Jewry in Nazi Death Camps and Ghettos in Poland, rev. B. Grey, Los Angeles, American Congress of Jews from Poland and Survivors of Concentration Camps, 1985, page 246. Mogilanski gives the dates April 1944–31 March 1945 for the camp's existence without citing any sources.

[1] Edward Basałygo, 900 lat Jeleniej Góry: Tędy przeszła historia: Kalendarium wydarzeń w Kotlinie Jeleniogórskiej i jej okolicach, Jelenia Góra, 2010, p. 240. Basałygo cites the official records of the German Ministry of Justice for the dates of the camp's existence (23 August 1944–30 April 1945). (See Bibliography for online link.)

[2] Roman Mogilanski, comp. & ed., The Ghetto Anthology: A Comprehensive Chronicle of the Extermination of Jewry in Nazi Death Camps and Ghettos in Poland, rev. B. Grey, Los Angeles, American Congress of Jews from Poland and Survivors of Concentration Camps, 1985, page 246. Mogilanski gives the dates April 1944–31 March 1945 for the camp's existence without citing any sources.

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