Book of Remembrance: Josefstal Residents in Nizhny Tagil Labour Camp, Sverdlovsk Region
The fall of 1941 saw the expulsion of the Volga Germans to Siberia. Made to fend for themselves in the coming winter in Siberia, many of them perished. In 1942, all Volga German males were separated from their families and “drafted” into a “Worker’s Army”, located in special “work camps”. These “work camps” were labour/concentration camps and the work was actually slave labour. (Women were placed in other camps)
Thousands upon thousands would perish.
Some books have been published through the years that document the people in the camps. These books, put together by such groups as “Memorial” do a great service in documenting the Communist crimes against various ethnic groups.
In this case, the book: Gedenkbuch: Gordoe terpen’e. Kniga pamiati sovetskikh nemtsev – uznikov Tagillaga. has also been published on a web site. That site is available, with search capabilities, here.
I’ve searched through and exerpted the names of 9 Josefstal residents that were housed in this labour camp.
This is dedicated to their memory!
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