Eichberg Euthanasia List (ID: 45682)
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Description:
List of individuals who were killed in Eichberg, a clinic and sanatorium for mentally ill and disabled patients situated near Eltville-Erbach in the Rheingau region. Index includes name, date of birth, place of birth, date of death, place of origin, and alleged diagnosis. The information was gather from death books for Erbach and Rheingau. See note below for background information on Eichberg.
Compiler:
Eulberg, P. Michael
Sex:
Male and Female
Language:
German
Persecution Status:
"Euthanasia" Program
Number of Persons (Est.):
3082
Place of Death:
Eltville, Germany
Keyword:
Euthanasia--Germany
Notes:
Eichberg was a clinic and sanatorium for mentally ill and disabled patients situated near Eltville-Erbach in the Rheingau region.
In the early 1930s, forced sterilizations were carried out in accordance with the Nazi Gesetz zur Verhütung erbkranken Nachwuchses (Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring). Eichberg became one of the intermediate institutions in the so-called “Aktion T4”,that both sent their own patients to the T4 killing institutions and also temporarily admitted patients from other institutions before they too were sent to their deaths. More than 2,000 patients were transferred from Eichberg to the killing institution in Hadamar.
After transports to killing facilities such as Hadamar stopped, the Eichberg institution became massively overcrowded. In August 1941, methodical malnutrition was introduced as a new method of mass killing. Patients were also killed with drugs or ice baths starting in 1942. From 1943 on, some patients worked in various regional factories to support the war effort.
Research based on the death books of the community of Erbach/Rheingau for the years 1933 - 1945 was able to retrace the different stages of the hospital activity and their consequences for the patients. They established that both Jewish and increasingly foreign patients from the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Poland, the Netherlands, Norway and the Ukraine died at Eichberg. In addition, hundreds of children were “examined”, partly in close cooperation with the Heidelberg Psychiatric University Hospital, and then taken to Eichberg, where they were put to death.
A total of at least 2,300 people died of unnatural causes at Eichberg as part of the Nazi policy regarding euthanasia. Among them were over 500 children.
In the early 1930s, forced sterilizations were carried out in accordance with the Nazi Gesetz zur Verhütung erbkranken Nachwuchses (Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring). Eichberg became one of the intermediate institutions in the so-called “Aktion T4”,that both sent their own patients to the T4 killing institutions and also temporarily admitted patients from other institutions before they too were sent to their deaths. More than 2,000 patients were transferred from Eichberg to the killing institution in Hadamar.
After transports to killing facilities such as Hadamar stopped, the Eichberg institution became massively overcrowded. In August 1941, methodical malnutrition was introduced as a new method of mass killing. Patients were also killed with drugs or ice baths starting in 1942. From 1943 on, some patients worked in various regional factories to support the war effort.
Research based on the death books of the community of Erbach/Rheingau for the years 1933 - 1945 was able to retrace the different stages of the hospital activity and their consequences for the patients. They established that both Jewish and increasingly foreign patients from the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Poland, the Netherlands, Norway and the Ukraine died at Eichberg. In addition, hundreds of children were “examined”, partly in close cooperation with the Heidelberg Psychiatric University Hospital, and then taken to Eichberg, where they were put to death.
A total of at least 2,300 people died of unnatural causes at Eichberg as part of the Nazi policy regarding euthanasia. Among them were over 500 children.