The Gabersdorf forced labour camp (also known as ''Wolta'' or ''Wolta-Gabersdorf''), later a
Nazi concentration camp
From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany operated more than a thousand concentration camps, (officially) or (more commonly). The Nazi concentration camps are distinguished from other types of Nazi camps such as forced-labor camps, as well as concen ...
, was located at Libeč (today part of
Trutnov) in
Czechoslovakia
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In the camp, Jewish women were detained who worked at the textile factories of Hasse and company, Etrich, and
Vereinigte Textilwerke K. H. Barthel. The camp was established in 1941 and became a subcamp of
Gross-Rosen on 22 March 1944. According to a survivor, there were about 70 women in one barracks. The typical camp meal was a soup of water and
rutabaga. Daily rations declined in quality and quantity over time; as the war progressed, the prisoners' daily portion of bread was decreased to 220 grams. The camp was liberated by the Russian army on 6 May 1945.
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Passover Haggadah included in a diary written in Gabersdorf Labor Camp in
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Nazi concentration camps in Czechoslovakia
Gross-Rosen concentration camp
Subcamps of Nazi concentration camps
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