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Pirna-Sonnenstein Memorial

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  • Location: Pirna, Saxon Switzerland-East Ore Mountains, Saxony, Germany

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    January 30, 2022

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    In the years 1940 and 1941, the National Socialists murdered around 13,720 mostly mentally ill and mentally handicapped people in the Pirna-Sonnenstein sanatorium and nursing home. They were killed in a gas chamber in the basement of this building as part of the National Socialist killings of the sick, the so-called "Action T4". Furthermore, more than a thousand prisoners from National Socialist concentration camps died at this location in the summer of 1941 as part of the "special treatment 14f13".
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    September 6, 2023

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    In the Pirna-Sonnenstein Heil- und Pflegeanstalt (sanatorium and nursing home), the National Socialists murdered around 13,720 predominantly mentally ill and intellectually disabled people in 1940 and 1941. They were killed in a gas chamber in the cellar of the institution as part of the National Socialist "euthanasia" program, the so-called "Aktion T4".

    Furthermore, in the summer of 1941, more than a thousand inmates from National Socialist concentration camps died at this location as part of the "Sonderbehandlung 14f13" (special treatment).
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    In the Pirna-Sonnenstein care institution, the National Socialists murdered around 13,720 predominantly mentally ill and intellectually disabled people in the years 1940 and 1941. They were killed in a gas …
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    Location: Pirna, Saxon Switzerland-East Ore Mountains, Saxony, Germany

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