Vorkutlag
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The Vorkuta Corrective Labor Camp, commonly known as Vorkutlag, was a major Gulag labor camp in the Soviet Union located in Vorkuta, Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Russian Soviet Federativ
Perimeter fence and watchtower, Vorkuta Gulag.
The Vorkuta industrial labor camp complex was located 160 km above the Arctic Circle. The city had a population of approximately 15,000 and about 50 camps with more than 50,000 inmates.
Meeting of the first train in Vorkuta. Yakov Fomin, December 28, 1941.
Mikhail Maltsev and Yakov Fomin
Heinz Baumkötter
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Heinz Baumkötter was an SS-Hauptsturmführer and concentration camp medical doctor in Mauthausen, Natzweiler-Struthof and Sachsenhausen, who conducted medical experiments on concentration camp inmates.
Vorkutlag
…F). Vorkuta's climate is influenced both by its distance from the North Atlantic and the proximity to the Arctic Ocean, bringing cold air in spring. Heinz Baumkötter (1912–2001) SS concentration camp doctor in Mauthausen concentration camp, arrested in 1947, released in 1956. Homer Harold Cox (1921–1954), kidnapped…
Heinz Baumkotter