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Apolda

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The Apolda subcamp was established in mid-February 1945, utilising a large bakery belonging to the “Thüringen" consumer cooperative, which had, since September 1939, supplied bread daily to Buchenwald. Eight prisoners were assigned to work there by the SS. They were accommodated on an upper floor of the bakery but nothing else is known about this. The prisoners were specially selected because they were trained bakers, possibly even master bakers. They were aged between 42 and 64 and had been incarcerated because they were all Jehovah’s Witnesses. They had all suffered years of imprisonment for this reason. Martin Bertram from Frankfurt am Main, Otto Hörnig from Lützen (near Leipzig), and Otto Berthold from Oberlungwitz in Saxony, had first arrived at Buchenwald in 1937. These eight prisoners remained at the bakery until they were liberated by US soldiers on 12 th April 1945. They did not work at the baking ovens but instead at baking tables alongside other bakers. No deaths wer...
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Annaburg

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Annaburg was a remote subcamp situated just off the road between Annaburg and Schweidnitz (Schweinitz), three kilometres away from Annaburg. It served Siebel Flugzeugwerke A.G., based in Halle an der Saale (to the west of Annaburg), which had relocated part of its production to a factory in Annaburg. According to local residents’ stories, construction of the camp began in September or October 1944. It was located next to a wooded area on a flat, sandy rise known as the ‘White Hill’. The site was obscured from view from the road by a small stretch of woodland known as the ‘Goat Thicket’. Access was via a farm track. The first batch of prisoners arrived in January 1945.  Building materials for the construction of the camp were delivered by a light railway. The camp consisted of three wooden barracks for the prisoners and a fourth stone barrack for the SS guards. An electrified barbed wire fence with three watchtowers surrounded the camp and there was a high wooden fence on one si...
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