Stutthof

Approximately 35 kilometres east of Gdansk  lies the Stutthof state museum, the memorial site for the  Stutthof concentration camp. Between 1939 and 1945 around  110,000 people were imprisoned in this concentration camp; more  than 65,000 were murdered or died as a result of abysmal  hygiene, insufficient nutrition and the consequences of  maltreatment and forced labour. In spring 1944 a gas chamber  was built; it was initially intended for the delousing of  clothing but from the summer it was used for the mass  extermination of people. Stutthof's early construction makes it  the first concentration camp outside Germany's borders. It was  the last camp to be liberated by the Allies. (*)

Buses are the only means of public  transport with which the Stutthof Museum can be reached today.  The bus stop is located one kilometre away from the  concentration camp's memorial site. From the bus stop a path  leads to the village of Sztutowo. Getting to the memorial site  involves a rather long walk along the busy trunk road. The bus  stops only on request. Information on the bus departure times  (buses leave at intervals of up to two hours) are not to be  found at the bus stops but can be acquired on request at the  museum.

(*)Vgl.: KZ Stutthof (Stutthof  Concentration Camp) by Brigitte Jäger-Dabek http://www.shoa.de/content/view/212/231