KZ Mittelbau-Dora
From January 1944 onwards, forced labourers were gradually placed in the finished barracks, while production of German V1 and V2 rockets began at the plant and new prisoners from other camps were brought for that purpose. Those who survived the construction work were sent in March to a sub-camp near Nordhausen, where they had to continue their murderous work for the Third Reich. The increased need for armaments required more and more workers, because of which the camp became an independent concentration camp on the 28th of November 1944, where prisoners from other camps, prisoners of war and foreigners - forced labourers - were forced to work. At the beginning of 1945, there were more than 40,000 people from almost all over Europe in Mittelbau-Dora and its 40 or so sub-camps.
With the approaching eastern front, the number of evacuation marches increased. As a result, another 16,000 people were brought to the camp, which made the already dramatic conditions even worse and increased the death rate. Between January and April 1945, 6,000 prisoners died. In April, Mittelbau-Dora was evacuated and thousands of exhausted and sick people were forced into cattle and freight wagons or forced to march to death and were sent to KZ Bergen-Belsen, Sachsenhausen and Ravensbrück. Members of the SS, Wehrmacht and Volkssturm murdered 1,000 people who were locked in a barn at Gardelegen and then set on fire. The estimated number of evacuation victims is 8,000 in total. Those who survived the marches or transports were liberated between the middle of April and the beginning of May. American soldiers liberated KZ Mittelbau-Dora, where a few Italian prisoners and several sick people remained, on the 11th of April 1945.
List of names of Home Army soldiers, participants of the Warsaw Uprising, who died in the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp:
ĆWIKIEL WŁADYSŁAW Second-Lieutenant a.k.a. "Cień", reserve officer
† 1945
DYBICZ JAN Rifleman
* 15.7.1918 Cecylówka
until 3.5 prisoner in the camp
KARWACKI RYSZARD Cpl. Cadet Officer a.k.a. "Gniewosz"
* 30.11.1924 Warsaw
† 1945
ZAKRZEWSKI WŁADYSŁAW Second-Lieutenant a.k.a. "Brzoza"
* 25.6.1905
† 3.1945