Concentration Camp Barth

Concentration camp Barth, officially KZ-Außenlager Barth, was a sub-camp of concentration camp Ravensbrück and was in use from November 1943 to spring 1945. It housed prisoners who performed forced labour in the nearby Heinkel-Flugzeugwerke factory. A total of 7,000 people were imprisoned here, an unknown number of whom died as a result of the poor working and living conditions. In 1955, the site was set up as a memorial site. The dead buried elsewhere on the site were reburied here. On 8 May 1966, the memorial site was renewed with a monument by Joachim Jastram, consisting of eight tombstones, a tower and a concrete wall. The dead were reburied again, in Galgenberg and Rövershagen, together with the dead from surrounding mass graves.