The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945

The Wehrmacht reorganized Auflag 13 to form AGSSt 13 in Defense District (Wehrkreis) X on March 21, 1941. AGSSt 13 received field post number (Feldpostnummer) 24 511 between February 16 and July 18, 1941. From June 1941 onward, AGSSt 13 came under the jurisdiction of the Sixteenth Army Rear Area Commander (Kommandant rückwärtiges Armeegebiet, Korück, 584). Between 1941 and 1943, AGSSt 13 deployed to at least ten locations behind the Eastern front, including the village of Loknia (map 9a).¹ As of May 15, 1942, the camp personnel consisted of 20 people, including six officers, four noncommissioned officers, and ten privates.²

During its deployment to Loknia, AGSSt 13 featured the same overcrowding and catastrophic sanitary conditions that prevailed in most such camps for Soviet prisoners of war in Belorussia and Russia. Prisoners endured malnutrition, exhaustion, and abuse. In the absence of proper medical care, they suffered extremely high sickness and mortality rates. As in other camps, the Germans conducted selections of Jews and Communists among the prisoners. A Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) detachment or guards then shot those selected near the camp.³ The Wehrmacht disbanded AGSSt 13 in October 1944 and transferred its remaining prisoners to Dulag 110.