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GUNSKIRCHEN Extermination Camp
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
I am the nephew of Mr. Wiebe Dop (born 1921) that died among thousands of others in April 1945 at Gunskirchen,
Austria. Therefore, I did a lot of research on that important satellite camp of Mauthausen/Gusen.
This documentation is dedicated to the many thousand forgotten victims of Gunskirchen and my uncle
Mr. Wiebe Dop (1921-1945)
Wiebe Dop was born at April 24, 1921 in Blaricum the Netherlands and died on April 24,
1945 in Gunskirchen (Austria).
In May 1943 he had to report at the labor exchange to be enlisted for forced labor in Germany
and was send over to Krefeld in Germany in September 1943 to work for the "Krefelder Bauhandwerk
Arbeitsgemeinschaft".
He worked there for the German war industry and was forced to build bunkers.
In September 1944 something has happened in the work camp in Krefeld-Oppum
or at the Krefelder Bauhandwerk Arbeitsgemeinschaft that made that Wiebe Dop was
transported to the concentration camp Oranienburg (Sachsenhausen) as prisoner
102913 together with 34 other Dutchman. According to a testimony as a reprisal
for something that has happened at the factory where he worked.
In Oranienburg he worked at the Heinkel airplane factory. Some weeks later he was transported
to the Sachsenhausen subcamp "Klinker".
On February 16, 1945 he was transported again to the concentration camp Mauthausen in
Austria and was registered there as "Niederlaendischer Schutzhaeftling" No. 130585.
Wiebe Dop was transported on March 12, 1945 from the Mauthausen main camp
to a sub-camp called Wels 1. When this camp closed on March 24, 1945 he
must have been transported to the nearby located Gunskirchen camp.
Wiebe Dop died at April 24, 1945 in the Gunskirchen camp in Austria. According to the
camp administration he died of "Allgemeine Koerperschwaeche" (collaps).
He was probably buried somewhere in the forests around the Gunskirchen camp.
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Location
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Death Marches
Situation in the Camp
Liberation
Map of Gunskirchen Extermination Camp
Statement of Liberator about Conditions at Gunkirchen Extermination Camp
Gunskirchen Monuments
Literature about Gunskirchen
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