Hertine (Rtyně) Subcamp
October 10, 1944 – mid-April 1945
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View of the village Rtyně, 2019 (Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial / Photo: Rainer Viertlböck)
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Prisoners
600 Hungarian Jewish women from the Auschwitz concentration camp. On April 13, 1945, 394 women were imprisoned in Hertine.
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Forced labor and quarters
Filling of shells with gunpowder and phosphorous for the “Gesellschaft zur Vewertung Chemischer Erzeugnisse Hertine GmbH” (subsidiary firm of Dynamit Nobel AG); a small work detail performed agricultural work. The women were quartered in a fenced-in barracks compound in the woods.
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Guards
Detail leader Behr with 41 SS men and 19 female overseers.
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Death toll
Four documented deaths, but the real number of victims is most likely higher.
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Disbanding of the camp / end of the war
The camp was evacuated in mid-April and the prisoners sent to Theresienstadt, where they were liberated by the Red Army.
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Commemoration
None