September 1939, Grudziewicze, Grodno district, Bialystok voivodship, Poland.
A gate built to welcome the incoming Soviet Army. Slogan on the banner:
"We welcome the invincible and brotherly union of nations of the Soviet Union and Western Belarus"
Photo: unknown, KARTA Centre collection.
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
Bernburg is a town in Saxony-Anhalt in Germany, capital of the district of Salzlandkreis. It is situated on the river Saale.
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. In Bernburg, more than 5,000 prisoners, mostly Jewish, from concentration camps at Buchenwald, Flossenbürg, Gross-Rosen, Neuengamme, Ravensbrück, and Sachsenhausen were killed under the "special operation 14f13." In 1943, killing was suspended and Bernburg again became nursing home.
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