Ulven detention camp

Ulven
Concentration camp
Location of Ulven within Vestland Ulven detention camp (Norway)
Coordinates	60.2058°N 5.4497°E / 60.2058; 5.4497
Other names	Norwegian: Ulven fangeleir
Location	Osøyro, Norway
Operated by	Sicherheitspolizei
Commandant	Otmar Holenia
Original use	Polizeihäftlingslager
Operational	June 1940-1944

Ulven concentration camp (Norwegian: Ulven fangeleir; Ulven means "the wolf") was a concentration camp in Norway that was located in what was Os Municipality in Hordaland county (now part of Bjørnafjorden Municipality in Vestland county). It was located just outside the village of Osøyro, 30 kilometres (19 mi) south of the city of Bergen. It was established in June 1940 during the German occupation of Norway, and it was the first prison camp in Norway. It was designated a Polizeihäftlingslager (police detention camp), under the administration of the Nazi "security police" (Sicherheitspolizei, SIPO).

Initially, prisoners were Jews and communists, but a broader array of members from prosecuted groups began arriving at the camp. Conditions were relatively benign until 1942, when Untersturmführer Otmar Holenia, nicknamed "the Storm", took command and imposed harsher conditions. Ulven was used for purposes of executing individuals for various reasons. It is not known how many were murdered in the camp.

In the course of the summer of 1943, the prisoners at Ulven were used as slave labor to build the Espeland concentration camp in Bergen, to which the prisoners were transferred.

See also

• Nazi concentration camps in Norway