Sonnenburg concentration camp

Sonnenburg concentration camp
Concentration camp
Murdered prisoners of Sonnenburg concentration camp, 1945, with Soviet soldiers
Location of the former Sonnenburg concentration camp in Poland
Coordinates52°33′51″N 14°48′41″E / 52.5642°N 14.8113°E / 52.5642; 14.8113
LocationSłońsk, Poland

The Sonnenburg concentration camp (German: Konzentrationslager Sonnenburg) was a Nazi German concentration camp, that was opened on 3 April 1933 in Sonnenburg (now Słońsk in Poland) in a former prison, on the initiative of the Free State of Prussia Ministry of the Interior and Justice.

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