www.facebook.com www.facebook.com www.ceepackaging.com twitter @ceepackaging Przebrno is a village on the Vistula Spit in northern Poland. Administratively it forms part of the town (urban gmina) of Krynica Morska. The village has sandy beaches on the shores of the Bay of Gdańsk on the northern side of the spit, and the Vistula Lagoon on the southern side. During the Second World War it was the location for the German concentration camp Pröbernau, a subcamp of the concentration camp Stutthof. Stutthof was initially a civilian internment camp under the Danzig police chief. In November 1941, it became a "labour education" camp, administered by the German Security Police. Finally, in January 1942, Stutthof became a regular concentration camp. The original camp was surrounded by barbed-wire fence. It comprised eight barracks for the inmates and a "kommandantur" for the SS guards, totalling 120000 m². In 1943, the camp was enlarged and a new camp was constructed alongside the earlier one. It was also surrounded by electrified barbed-wire fence and contained thirty new barracks, raising the total area to 1.2 km². The camp staff consisted of SS guards and after 1943, Ukrainian auxiliaries. In 1942 the first female prisoners and female German guards arrived in Stutthof, including aufseherin Herta Bothe. A total of over 130 women served in the Stutthof complex of camps. 34 female guards, including Gerda Steinhoff, Rosy Suess, Ewa Paradies and Jenny-Wanda Barkmann, have been <b>...</b>
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Przebno
Sztutowo
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Gdańsk
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jenny wanda barkmann
jenny-wanda barkmann
herta bothe
