28 Dec 1944
Germany
Germany
- The first 150 Jewish prisoners from Buchenwald Concentration Camp arrived at the HASAG Leipzig subcamp near the village of Flösenberg, Germany. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | HASAG Leipzig | Flösenberg, Bayreuth | CPC]
5 Mar 1945
Germany
Germany
- The factory at the HASAG Leipzig slave labour camp near the village of Flösenberg, Germany was destroyed by Allied aircraft. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | HASAG Leipzig | Flösenberg, Bayreuth | CPC]
13 Apr 1945
Germany
Germany
- The HASAG Leipzig slave labour camp in Germany was officially closed; the remaining 1,100 prisoners were transported by train to Mauthasen Concentration Camp, several hundred of whom did not survive the journey. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | HASAG Leipzig | Flösenberg, Bayreuth | CPC]
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