
doi: 10.2979/ast.00042
Abstract: Mennonite farmers were part of the regional administrative system responsible for using agricultural slave labor from the Stutthof Concentration Camp. Correlating different types of records from the Stutthof archive, the German Federal archives, Mennonite genealogical records, and local address directories, this article illuminates a complex web of previously unknown Mennonite connections to the camp. The last phase of this labor program involved large numbers of Jews evacuated from camps in the Baltic countries and brought from Hungary via Auschwitz. Two unique letters from Mennonite farmers complaining about the lack of adequate clothing for 10 Jewish women employed as slave laborers provide the names of all 12 people involved. These documents show the intimate nature of this Mennonite-Jewish encounter and allow insight into the paths that unexpectedly and briefly brought Jewish slave laborers together with Mennonite farmers in the fall of 1944.
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