Holocaust - KL Esterwegen Wooden Rememberance Panel

Holocaust - KL Esterwegen Wooden Rememberance Panel

KL Esterwegen wooden remembrance panel, made by or for a former inmate who was in that camp. Panel has been carved with the symbol of the triangle of political prisoners from Belgium, an eagle flying over the camp and also the main gate of the camp of Esterwegen. All hand made post-war. Awesome item directly connected with Nazi concentration camps. The Esterwegen concentration camp near Esterwegen was an early Nazi concentration camp within a series of camps first established in the Emsland district of Germany. It was established in the summer of 1933 as a concentration camp for 2000 so-called political Schutzhäftlinge (protective custody prisoners) and was for a time the second largest concentration camp after Dachau. The camp was closed in summer of 1936. Thereafter, until 1945 it was used as a prison camp. Political prisoners and so-called Nacht und Nebel prisoners were also held there. After the war ended, Esterwegen served as a British internment camp, as a prison, and, until 2000, as a depot for the German Army.