Schwarzheide - Außenlager des KZ-Lagers Sachsenhausen
Schwarzheide - Sub Camp of the KZ Sachsenhausen

Summary/Abstract: Jakov Tsur, himself a former inmate of the Schwarzheide auxiliary camp, tells its history. Founded in 1944 as one of seven labour camps of the Brabag, German company specialised in chemical fabrication of brown coal, it was a cooperation with IG Farben. The camp employed over1400 prisoners, all male and most of them Jewish, deported from Auschwitz. Many of them were prior to this been in Terezin. Schwarzheide had fairly ghastly living conditions, many prisoners died. In April 1945, the sick were sent to Sachsenhausen and those “ablebodied” to a death march over Kamenz to Terezin. Of the almost 600 prisoners survived less than a half.

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