Soviet prisoners in the SS Auschwitz

Transfer / evacuation of Soviet prisoners of war to other German camps in 1944–1945.

Since August 1944 with the approach of the front line Auschwitz concentration camp administration began to move the prisoners deeper into German territory to other camps. Researches show that since that time the delivery of new groups of Soviet prisoners of war (POWs) to Auschwitz had also stopped. Soviet prisoners were transported from Auschwitz among others. Studies of the surviving lists of the transported prisoners indicate that Soviet POWs were sent to Flossenburg and Buchenwald as well as to other concentration camps. In these lists Soviet prisoners were marked by RKG letters.

Later many of them died, some managed to escape. Among Soviet POWs sent from Auschwitz to Buchenwald A. Lebedev, V. Sitnov and V. Kartsev participated in organization of the Buchenwald uprising 11 April 1945. And this was liberation.

All of this is described in memoirs of survived Soviet prisoners.

A. Lebedev (prisoner 88349) remembers:

”… we were driven around the dying Reich’s territory which was greatly diminished under the blows of two fronts. We have seen dead Hamburg, Bremen’s ruins, towns of the Ruhr region and villages of Westphalia. Having miraculously survived endless ordeals we found ourselves in Buchenwald — the last place of our torments”

Lebedev A.F. Soldiers of the Minor War. Oswiecim Prisoner’s Notes. М., 1961. p. 93–94

Lists of Auschwitz concentration camp prisoners transferred to Buchenwald concentration camp

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Document. The Archives of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. Ibidem,
D-BU-3/1/5–6, KL Buchenwald-Zgl v, KL Auschwitz Manner t.5, p. 70; t.6, p. 8, 19, 21

Vyacheslav Tolstikov remembers:

”That evening we were transported west. In the morning we learnt that the prisoners had escaped from the last carriage, where Anatoly Borodulin had been. The SS guards became more alert so no one had managed to escape until we reached the place of destination. We were brought to Flossenburg. After quarantine we were directed to the construction of an underground plant. For several more months we have been sent from one camp to another until we were finally liberated by the arrived French forces.”

Maslennikov N. Those, who defeated death. Stavropol, 1974. p. 152–154

Lists of Auschwitz concentration camp prisoners transferred to Flossenbürg concentration camp

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Document. The Archives of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. D-Floss-3/1/1–2,
KL Flossenburg-Zg v KL Auschwitz, t.1, p. 22–24, 49, 72–102; t.2, p.1–2; t.3, p. 60
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