Heiligenbeil was a subcamp of the
German
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Stutthof concentration camp
Stutthof was a Nazi concentration camp established by Nazi Germany in a secluded, marshy, and wooded area near the village of Stutthof (now Sztutowo) 34 km (21 mi) east of the city of Danzig (Gdańsk) in the territory of the German-an ...
, operated from September 1944 to January 1945. It was named after the town Heiligenbeil (now
Mamonovo
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,
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).
Its prisoners were 1,100
Jewish
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women and 100 Jewish men.
The prisoners were subjected to
forced labour
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.
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The commanders of the subcamp were SS-]Unterscharführer
''Unterscharführer'' (, ) was a paramilitary rank of the Nazi Party used by the ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) between 1934 and 1945. The SS rank was created after the Night of the Long Knives. That event caused an SS reorganisation and the creati ...
Hermann Kleiss (in September–October 1944), SS-Oberscharführer
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''Oberscharführer'' (, ) was a Nazi Party paramilitary rank that existed between 1932 and 1945. ''Oberscharführer'' was first used as a rank of the ''Sturmabteilung'' (SA) and was created due to an expansion of the enlisted positions ...
Johann Mayer (October–November 1944), SS-Hauptscharführer
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''Hauptscharführer'' ( ) was a Nazi paramilitary rank which was used by the ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) between the years of 1934 and 1945. The rank was the highest enlisted rank of the SS, with the exception of the special Waffen-SS ran ...
Ernst Thulke (October 1944–January 1945) and SS-Sturmscharführer
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(; ) was a Nazi rank of the Waffen-SS that existed between 1934 and 1945. The rank was the most senior enlisted rank in the Waffen-SS, the equivalent of a regimental sergeant major, in other military organizations.
Rank usage
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Wolförer (January 1945).[
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Stutthof concentration camp
Subcamps of Nazi concentration camps
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