20 August 1944, Warsaw, Warsaw Rising - attack on PASTa building. Photo Eugeniusz Lokajski
Institution: Gedenkstätte für Opfer der NS-"Euthanasie" Bernburg
Patron / Project supervision: Ute Hoffmann
Project authors: Ute Hoffmann
Age group: High school
Dr. Ute Hoffmann, c/o Fachkrankenhaus für Psychiatrie und Neurologie
Gedenkstätte für Opfer der NS-"Euthanasie" Bernburg
Olga-Benario-Str. 16/18
D- 06406 Bernburg
phone:+49 (0) 34 71/31 98 16
fax:+49 (0) 34 71/31 98 16
From the Glossary
The action of mass killing of mentally and physically disable and considered incurable children and adults as well as of patients of psychiatric hospitals and concentration camps prisoners who were ill or unable to work organized in the III Reich.
A state psychiatric hospital built in 1875. From 1940 to 1943, Bernburg was one of six state hospitals where the psychiatric and physically disabled as well as many thousands of concentration camp prisoners were killed in gas chambers using carbon monoxide.
A town in Limburg-Weilburg district in Hesse, Germany. Hadamar Clinic for Psychiatry (Corrigendenanstalt) founded in 1883 as an institution for rural paupers, converted in 1906 into psychiatric hospital and sanatorium served since late 1940 as one of the six "euthanasia" centers in Nazi Germany.
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