Lenzing

Lenzing is a small city of about 5,000 citizens, 3 kilometers north of Lake Attersee in Austria; It is positioned within the Upper Austrian a part of the Salzkammergut. Lenzing's economic system is in part primarily based on tourism, but the city is a lot extra referred to as an business website online; it's miles the world headquarters of Lenzing AG, that's the arena leader in the manufacturing of cellulose-based fiber which includes viscose and Lyocell. As of 2004, it manufactures one-5th of the sector's cellulose fiber. In November 1944, the first shipping of 500 girls from Auschwitz got here to Lenzing to work within the newly opened nearby subcamp of Mauthausen attention camp which turned into positioned in the Lenzinger suburb of Pettighofen.

Eventually six hundred girl prisoners, specially Jewish girls came to Lenzing from Auschwitz, and a few others got here from Ravensbruck and the main camp at Mauthausen. The SS workforce within the small subcamp protected especially SS men in addition to a small contingent of SS girls. Frau Schmidt served in her capacities as Lagerführerin, or female commandant. Her most important boss was Mauthausen commandant Franz Ziereis who commanded all of the subcamps in Austria. Later Margarete Freinberger have become an.