FactGrid:Concentration and internment camps of the Second World War in the larger context

KZ Dachau

• Item:Q979697 The research project (to link with P131)
• Julian Freytag, Anne Purschwitz, Olaf Simons, Katja Liebing, Marius Wegener

What we are trying to offer

• A geo-referenced data set of all camps that were run by the different nations in World War II - with a broader perspective of the preceding developments
• A camp typology
• Authority control data for the set
• Incorporation of the list into the GND as part of the GND agency at the University of Halle

First queries

• List of facilities with identifiers: Wikidata, EHRI, ZWAR, GND, EVZ
• Ontology (under construction)

Maps

• All camps
• Types of camps (P2)
• National responsibilities (P1179)
• Persecution: target groups (P573)
• The 24 German IKL concentration camps / Table

• All satellite camps of the IKL system linked to the respective main camps

• Exemplary tracking of the career of Ludwig Plagge, with assignments in several concentration camps

Table data

• The camp commanders an their respective assignments
• IKL satellite camps, who is using their forced labour?
• The victims of the "Sonderaktion Krakau", 1939-11-06", in which the German occupants detained (and later deported) university personell at the Jagiellonian University Kraków
• All Theresienstadt inmates with the status of prominent prisoner
• All Ghettos

Network visualisations

• Employed in a concentration camp (connections between camps, generated by personel)
• Institutions signing responsible for concentration camps
• Satellite camps, who is using their work force?

Data integration

Zwangsarbeit 1939-1945. Erinnerungen und Geschichte: The ZWAR list

• https://tinyurl.com/22ulcak5 nach ZWAR-ID geordnete Tabelle mit GND und Wikidata-Nummern
• Map: all camps/prisons/labour battalions of the ZWAR research project