Neurohlau concentration camp

The plan of the camp, standing near the memorial in front of the train station in Nová Role

Neurohlau (Czech: Koncentrační tábor Nová Role) was a subcamp of Flossenbürg concentration camp, mainly for women prisoners of several European nationalities including Czech, Soviet, Yugoslavian, Belgian, Polish, and German. It was located on the edge of the municipality Neurohlau (now Nová Role) in the historical territory of Sudetenland (in the present-day Czech Republic). The Germans founded the camp in the autumn of 1942 and closed it in April 1945. Its main purpose was providing workers for the nearby Bohemia porcelain factory. At least 41 prisoners died in the camp (unearthed from the mass grave in June 1945); about 500 died during the death march out in April 1945; an unknown number died after their deportation back to the mother camps (Ravensbrück and Flossenbürg); and some others were burnt in the camp in Karlovy Vary. After World War II, the camp served as a collecting camp for prisoners of war before their removal to Germany.

External links

• Koncentrační tábor v Nové Roli 1942–1945 – a short history of the camp with photos (in Czech)
• Lágr. Temná minulost Nové Role – eyewitness accounts describing life in the camp (in Czech)
• Novorolský zpravodaj červen 2008 – a short account about the death march (in Czech)
• Na nacistické koncentrační tábory se v ČR zapomíná – an interview on BBC (in Czech)
• Neviditelný pes, HISTORIE: Krvavé jaro 1945 – an article about the Zwodau-Svatava concentration camp with some informations about the Nová Role camp (in Czech)

Further reading

• ČERVENÝ Jaroslav a kol. – Nová Role a okolí dnes a dříve, 1. část zvláštní přílohy Novorolského zpravodaje, 1985 (in Czech)
• FRNKA Ladislav – Stručná historie koncnetračního tábora v Nové Roli z let 1942–1945 a pochodu smrti z tohoto tábora z 20. dubna 1945. S.l., s.a. (in Czech)