שילוח מ - Hessisch Lichtenau, מחנה, גרמניה ל - Auschwitz Birkenau, מחנה השמדה, פולין ב- 27/10/1944

On October 27, 1944, some 206 Jewish women were deported from the Hessisch-Lichtenau (Hirschhagen) forced labor camp to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where they were all murdered upon arrival.

The "Hessisch Lichtenau Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung zur Verwertung chemischer Erzeugnisse" [Hessisch Lichtenau Limited Liability Company for the Utilization of Chemical Products] munitions factory, or "Verwert-Chemie" [Utilization Chemical] for short, was one of the most important armament enterprises in Nazi Germany. The factory, run by Dynamit Nobel, a subsidiary of the IG Farben conglomerate, was a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp, located in the present-day Hirschhagen neighborhood, next to the townlet of Fürstenhagen.^[1]

On August 2, 1944, Munition Inspection IX (Kassel) noted that 1,000 Hungarian Jewish women had been allocated to the Hessisch-Lichtenau factory.^[2] On September 18, Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year), the 1,000 Jewish women, mainly from Hungary, were transferred from the transit camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau to Hessisch-Lichtenau.^[3] On September 19, 1944, the Political Department of the Buchenwald camp registered the arrival of 1,000 Jewish women from Auschwitz at the munitions factory. The list indicates that the vast majority of the women were indeed from Hungary – along with one woman each from Romania and Poland, and three women each from Slovakia and Yugoslavia. According to historian Dieter Vaupel, who has researched the Hirschhagen forced labor site, another three Jewish women arrived at Hessisch-Lichtenau from Auschwitz, bringing the total number of new arrivals to 1,003; they were aged 15-49, and given the Buchenwald registration numbers 20,001-23,000.^[4]...