Location
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Location Details: Nový Dvůr, Politických Vězňů Street
Coordinates
49.606059, 13.098719
Type
Upright stele or slab, Wall, Holocaust monument / memorial, Spolia monuments
Location
Camp, Public street or square
Artist / Maker / Company
Václav Wegschmied st. (Realization), Václav Wegschmied ml. (Realization)
Textual Content
Dedication, Historical narrative, Sponsor / donor name(s)
Languages
Czech, English, Polish, Russian, German, French, Italian
Whom the Monument Commemorates
Victims of concentration camps, Jewish victims
Concentration camp victims
Material
Granite
Dimensions
Width: 150 cm
Height: 130 cm
Depth: 9 cm
Commissioned By
Town of Holýšov
Dates
The monument is located at the perimeter wall of the farm building in Nový Dvůr, which served as a sub-camp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp during World War II. The area at the intersection of the streets Politických Vězňů and Madame Michelin is landscaped. The centrepiece of the site is a stone stele of black granite, which stands about 1.5 m from the wall. Its face is polished, while the rest of its surface is rough. The stele bears a multilingual inscription in gold. It stands on a plinth, the top of which is made of black granite and the bottom is pink plastered concrete. The area around the stele features concrete paving, connecting to the road. The pavement is lined with decorative shrubs. To the right of the stele, between the pavement and the shrubbery, a light-coloured stone is included. It bears a plaque stating that the stone came from the Flossenbürg concentration camp. There are two more plaques on the wall behind the stele. A small metal plaque on the left is dedicated to the Association of Deportees and Families of Missing Persons from the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp. The plaque on the right, which consists of an older and a newer part, commemorates the liberation of the camp on 5 May 1945 by Polish troops of the Swietokrzyska Brigade. Both memorial plaques on the wall bear the logos of the donor organisations.
(Main stele)
PAMĚTNÍ DESKA
V TĚCHTO BUDOVÁCH BYL V DOBĚ DRUHÉ SVĚTOVÉ VÁLKY KONCENTRAČNÍ TÁBOR PRO MUŽE A ŽENY RUSKÉ, POLSKÉ, HOLANDSKÉ, ITALSKÉ A FRANCOUZSKÉ NÁRODNOSTI.
В ЭТИХ ПОCТРОЙКАХ НАХОДИЛСЯ ВО ВРЕМЯ ВТОРОЙ МИРОВОЙ ВОЙHЫ КОНЦЕНТРАЦИОННЫЙ ЛАГЕРЬДЛЯ МУЖЩИН И ЖЕНЩИН РУССКОЙ, ПОЛЬСКОЙ, ГОЛЛАНДСКОЙ, ИТАЛИАНСКОЙ И
ФРАНЦУЗСКОЙ НАЦИОНАЛЬНОCТЕЙ.
W TYCH BUDYNKACH W CZASIE DRUGIEJ WOJNY ŚWIATOWEJ ZNAJDOWAL SIĘ OBOZ KONCETRACYJNY DLAKOBIET I MĘZCZYZN NARODOWOŚCI ROSYJSKEJ, POLSKIEJ, HOLENDERSKIEJ, WŁOSKIEJ I FRANCUSKIEJ.
IN DEZE GEBOUWEN BEWOND ZICH TIJDENS DE TWEEDE WERELDOORLOG EEN CONCENTRATIENCAMP VOOR MANNER EN VROUWEN VAN RUSSICHE, POOLSE, NEDERLANDSE, ITALIAANSE EN FRANSE NATIONALITEIT.
DURANTE LA SECONDA GUERRA MONDIALE, IN QUESTI EDIFICI C´ERA UN CAMPO DI CONCENTRAMENTO
PER DONNE E UOMINI DI NAZIONALITA RUSSA, POLACCA, OLANDESE, ITALIANA E FRANCESE.
SUR CES LIEUX, AU COURS DE LA SECONDE GUERRE MONDIALE, SE TROUVAIT UN CAMP DE CONCENTRATION
POUR HOMMES ET FEMMES DE NATIONALITÉ RUSSE, POLONAISE, HOLLANDAISE, ITALIENNE ET FRANÇAISE.
ON THIS SITE DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR, THERE WAS A CONCENTRATION CAMP FOR MEN AND WOMEN OF RUSSIAN, POLISH, DUTCH, ITALIAN AND FRENCH NATIONALITIES.
IN DIESEN GEBÄUDEN BEFAND SICH WÄHREND DES ZWEITEN WELTKRIEGS EIN KONZENTRATIONSLAGER FÜR MÄNNER UND FRAUEN RUSSISCHER, POLNISCHER, HOLLÄNDISCHER, ITALIENISCHER UND FRANZÖSISCHER HERKUNFT.
MĚSTO HOLÝŠOV
(Stone on the right)
Žulový kámen z apelplatzu
KT Flossenbürg
Město Holýšov v květnu 2010 se spolupráci s ČsOL a KČP
umístilo tento kámen na pietní místo
(Left on the wall)
ASSOCIATION DES DEPORTES DE FLOSSENBURG
ET KOMMANDOS
IN MEMORIAM
(Right on the wall)
NA TOMTO MÍSTĚ DNE 5.5.1945 POLŠTÍ VOJÁCI ZE SVATOKŘÍŽSKÉ BRIGÁDY
NÁRODNÍCH OZBROJENÝCH SIL OSVOBODILI 1000 VĚZEŇKYŇ
NĚMECKÉHO ŽENSKÉHO KONCENTRAČNÍHO TÁBORA V HOLÝŠOVĚ.
POLŠTÍ VOJÁCI ZACHRÁNILI 280 ŽIDOVSKÝCH ŽEN, KTERÉ MĚLY BÝT
ZAŽIVA UPÁLENY ČLENY JEDNOTKY SS.
W TYM MIEJSCU W DNIU 5.05.1945 ROKU POLSCY ŻOŁNIERZE Z BRYGADY
ŚWIĘTOKRZYSKIEJ NARODOWYCH SIŁ ZBROJNYCH WYWOLILI
1000 WIĘŹNIAREK Z NIEMIECKIEGO OBOZU KONCENTRACYJNEGO
W HOLISZOWIE. POLACY URATOWALI 280 ŻYDÓWEK PRZED SPALENIEM
ŻYWCEM PRZEZ SS.
HERE ON MAY 5, 1945, POLISH SOLDIERS OF THE HOLY CROSS BRIGADE OF
THE NATIONAL ARMED FORCES LIBERATED 1,000 FEMALE PRISONERS
OF THE HOLYSHOV GERMAN CONCENTRATION CAMP. THAT INCLUDED
280 JEWISH WOMEN ABOUT TO BE BURNED ALIVE BY THE SS.
During World War II, the farm in Nový Dvůr, located about 1 km north of the centre of Holýšov, served as a sub-camp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp. Between 600 and 700 women prisoners were held there, mainly from France, Poland and the Soviet Union. In the spring of 1945, approximately 400 women of Jewish origin were placed in the camp. The women prisoners were put to work in the nearby munitions factory of Metallwerke Holleischen GmbH. About 250 men were also held at the farm to carry out construction work.
Immediately after the end of World War II, a plaque was placed on the wall of the former camp with the handwritten text "Memorial plaque indicating that these buildings were a concentration camp for men and women of Soviet, Polish, Italian, French and Dutch nationality during World War II." Photographs of the original monument show that barbed wire was left in the section of the wall above the plaque.
In 1966, the original plaque was replaced with a glass plaque supplied by the Municipal Services Paint Shop. The text has remained unchanged.
In 2005, the memorial site was completely remodelled and landscaped. At the same time, the barbed wire was removed and the plaque on the wall was replaced by a freestanding stone stele made by Staňkov Stoneworks. In 2007, a smaller memorial plaque commemorating the liberation of the camp in May 1945 by the Polish troops of the Swietokrzyska Brigade, created by Vladislav Kačer, was installed on the wall. This plaque was later expanded with a text section. A metal plaque of the Association of Deportees and Families of Missing Persons from the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp was also placed on the wall. In 2010, a stone from the Flossenbürg concentration camp appeplatz was added to the site.
Růžena Bubeníčková – Ludmila Kubátová – Irena Malá, Tábory utrpení a smrti, Praha 1969, p. 109.
Jan Valeš – Libor Schröpfer, Pobočný koncentrační tábor Holýšov 1944–1945: Francouzské deníky, Praha 2017.
Martin Veselý, Sudetská župa do kapsy: Holýšov v zajetí velkých dějin 1938–1945, Ústí nad Labem 2018.
https://www.vets.cz/vpm/mista/obec/2136-holysov/
https://evidencevh.army.cz/Evidence/detail-hrobu-ci-mista?id=CZE3212-6104&mt=hol%c3%bd%c5%a1ov&st=0&
https://zapomnicky.pamatnik-terezin.cz/index.php/tabory/tabory/70-holysov
Jan Valeš, Bejvávalo, Holýšovský zpravodaj XXVII, 2025, No. 4, pp. 17–18.
Central Register of War Graves, No. CZE3212-6104.
Cultural Heritage Monument reg. No. ÚSKP 37095/4-2073 – wall of the former concentration camp
https://pamatkovykatalog.cz/pametni-misto-byvaly-koncentracni-tabor-19079294
Jan Vladař