Sonnenburg concentration camp

Sonnenburg concentration camp
Concentration camp
Murdered prisoners of Sonnenburg concentration camp, 1945, with Soviet soldiers
Sonnenburg concentration camp is located in Poland
Sonnenburg concentration camp
Location of the former Sonnenburg concentration camp in Poland
Coordinates52°33′51″N 14°48′41″E / 52.5642°N 14.8113°E / 52.5642; 14.8113
LocationSłońsk, Poland

The Sonnenburg concentration camp (German: Konzentrationslager Sonnenburg) was a Nazi German concentration camp, that was opened on 3 April 1933 in Sonnenburg (now Słońsk in Poland) in a former prison, on the initiative of the Free State of Prussia Ministry of the Interior and Justice.[a][2]

  1. ^ Geoffrey P. Megargee. "Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945" (PDF). The Early National Socialist Concentration Camps. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. VIII (8 / 22) – via direct download.
  2. ^ TK25 Sheet 3454 Sonnenburg - 1938 edition. Archived 2015-12-08 at the Wayback Machine


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