Börgermoor Concentration Camp Survivors
Emslandlager ("Emsland camps") were a series of 15 moorland labor, punitive and POWs-camps, active from 1933 to 1945 and located in the districts of Emsland and Bentheim, Lower Saxony, Germany. The central administration was set in Papenburg where now a memorial of these camps, the ''Dokumentations- und Informationszentrum (DIZ) Emslandlager'', is located. In Emslandlager VII camp, seven Belgian Freemasons and resistance fighters founded '' Liberté chérie'' in 1943, one of the very few Masonic lodges established within a Nazi concentration camp. Börgermoor concentration camp The first and one of the most important of these camps was the Börgermoor concentration camp, situated near the current municipality of Surwold, in Lower Saxony. In June 1933 the first 1000 German political opponents to be held in protective custody (''Schutzhaft'') arrived at the site of the camp, which they built from scratch, as well as the Esterwegen concentration camp. In 1934 the camp becam ...
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