List of "return unwanted" concentration camp prisoners

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This article is a list of prisoners of Nazi concentration camps designated return unwanted (German: Rückkehr unerwünscht), which was used to forbid their release and indicate that their death was desired by the Nazi regime.

Name Born Died Reason Result
Konrad Adenauer 1876 1967 Opposition to the regime Survived Messelager Köln, Cologne-Hohenlind Hospital and Brauweiler. Avoided transport to Buchenwald by faking illness (according to Eugen Zander [de])
Antonia Bruha 1915 2006 Austrian Resistance activist Survived Ravensbrück
Norbert Čapek 1870 1942 Founder of the Czech Unitarian Church, listened to the BBC Died at Dachau
Jaroslav Dobrovolský [cz] 1895 1942 Czechoslovak Resistance fighter Died at Mauthausen
Joseph E. Drexel [de] 1896 1976 German Resistance member Survived Mauthausen and Flossenbürg
Gisi Fleischmann[1] 1892 1944 Leader of the Bratislava Working Group, an illegal Jewish organization that tried to rescue European Jews, especially Slovak Jews, from the Holocaust Deported to Auschwitz 18 October 1944, led away by SS guards and never seen again
Willy Gay [de] 1890 1975 Survived Mauthausen and Flossenbürg
Edmond Goergen [de] 1914 2000 Luxembourg Resistance member Survived Hinzert, Sachsenhausen and Mauthausen
Leo Haas 1901 1983 Graphic artist; with other artists, smuggled drawings about the Holocaust into neutral countries Survived Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen
Krafft Werner Jaeger [de] 1919 2008 German Resistance fighter involved in 20 July plot Survived Sachsenhausen
Jan Jebavý [cz] 1908 1942 Czechoslovak Resistance member Killed at Mauthausen
Rosa Jochmann[2] 1901 1994 Austrian Resistance activist Survived Ravensbrück
Siegfried Lederer[3] 1904 1972 Witnessed the Lidice massacre Escaped from Auschwitz 5 April 1944 with the help of an SS guard
Gertrud Müller [de] 1915 2007 German Resistance fighter Survived Ravensbrück, Natzweiler-Struthof and Munich-Allach
Erna Musik 1921 2009 Austrian Resistance activist Survived Auschwitz and Ravensbrück
Zofia Pociłowska-Kann [pl] 1920 2019 Polish Resistance member Survived Ravensbrück
Fritz Pröll 1915 1944 German Resistance fighter Killed himself at Mittelbau-Dora
Josef Pröll [de] 1911 1984 German Resistance fighter Survived Dachau, Natzweiler-Struthof and Buchenwald
Stefanie Ranner [de] 1923 1944 Relationship with a Polish forced laborer resulting in pregnancy Died at Ravensbrück
Barbara Reimann [de] 1920 2013 German Resistance member; wrote anti-war letters to soldiers Survived Fuhlsbüttel and Ravensbrück
Herbert Schemmel [de] 1914 2003 Subversive statements and listening to foreign radio stations Survived Sachsenhausen and Neuengamme
Irma Thälmann [de] 1919 2000 German Resistance member; daughter of Ernst Thälmann Survived Ravensbrück

References

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  1. ^ "Prominent Members of the Working Group". Yad Vashem. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
  2. ^ Rainer Mayerhofer. "Rosa Jochmann: Symbolfür Demokratie und Menschenwürde". Wiener Zeitung. Archived from the original on 26 January 2004. Retrieved 8 March 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  3. ^ Zdražilová, Romana (2017). Červená, Radka Křížková (ed.). Perzekuce Židovského obyvatelstva v Plzni v průběhu druhé světové války (PDF) (Thesis) (in Czech). Západočeská univerzita v Plzni. pp. 52–53. Retrieved 10 August 2018.