"My grandfather was [ ] at Natzweiler and later marched to Dachau. I thank god every day that he survived.[ ]His name was Franciszek Blachut (although in German it would have been Franz Blachhut) .... My father never even knew that his father was in Natzweiler until I told him. Whilst my grandfather had no qualms talking about Dachau and the gestapo in general- he never spoke of NAtzweiler where he spent years as opposed to days spent in Dachau. Thank you." C. Blachut, 12/8/2009

Editor's note: the Natzweiler registration also applied to prisoners who worked in its slave labor dependencies, such as Neckargerach, which held an average of 1,500, but conditions must have been fair, because it only lost 12. (Of course, many prisoners from these sub-camps were moved to Vaihingen, another subcamp, to starve and die when they became unable to work.)

 

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