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The Nazi aggressors opened the Stalag XVIII-D POW concentration camp in Maribor (Slovenia) immediately after the surrender of the Yugoslavian army in June 1941. The camp stretched out over the premises of the former army barracks and customs warehouse in Melje.
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One notable camp was the Maribor concentration camp, also referred to as the Maribor Transit Camp or Lager Marburg. This camp, which operated from 1941 to 1944, served primarily as a transit location for Slovene and other ethnic prisoners en route to other Nazi concentration camps across Europe.
Between the beginning of June and the end of July 1941, 22 prisoners of war escaped from Stalag XVIII D in Maribor. [2] The largest and most spectacular escape from the prisoner-of-war camp in Melje (»The Crow's Flight«) occurred in 1944 when more than 90 prisoners escaped.
From late spring 1941, after Lower Styria was annexed by the Third Reich, the Jews of Maribor were deported to concentration camps. Culture [ edit ] Headquarters of the University of Maribor The more-than-400-year-old Žametovka grapevine growing outside the Old Vine House in Maribor.
Slovenes were deported to Serbia and Eastern Europe, while Maribor’s Jewish community was deported to concentration camps. This resulted in significant loss of life and the destruction of Maribor’s pre-war multicultural society.
About 120 of us, Serbs and Slovenians, had been taken over by the Germans and around 27th April the Germans put us in G train wagons and took us to a concentration camp in Maribor (Slovenia). After we arrived in Maribor we were stationed in a horse barracks where they kept hay for horses, and we stayed there for four nights without food and water.
10. History of the Holocaust in Slovenia. Andrej Pančur [pers.] 1 On 11 April 1945 the American Army liberated the German concentration camp of Buchenwald. The only fourteen-year-old Tamás Berthold Schwarz [pers.] was among the surviving internees. Before he arrived to Buchenwald, in the end of January 1945 Tamás had barely survived the ...
