Ober Alstadt was a subcamp of Gross-Rosen located in Czechoslovakia. The camp was first established as a forced labor camp in 1941. At its peak, it consisted of about 1,000 to 1,200 women working in a flax spinning mill for the firms Ettrich, Kluge and Siemens.
Below are thumbnails of the front and back of a postcard from Warthenau, postmarked May 14, 1943, addressed to an inmate at Ober Alstadt (Wohnlager W1) working for Firm Kluge. Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "Postcard" in the left frame to return.
Erik Lordahl, German Concentration Camps 1933-1945, History and Inmate Mail (2006). Referred to as Lordahl.
Catalogue of Camps and Prisons in Germany and German-Occupied Territories, International Tracing Service, 1949
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