Berlin Tempelhof Columbia-Haus concentration camp (#2219)

A memorial for Columbia-Haus; the building no longer exists.

Columbia-Haus was a conversion of a former military prison by the Nazi party, in its earliest years. Initially a Gestapo prison, it was converted into a concentration camp. The prison, built to hold 150, typically had 450 inmates under the Nazi control. The concentration camp was closed in 1936 when a larger concentration camp was opened just outside Berlin; the building was demolished to make room for the expansion of the airport. See: www.thf-berlin.de/en/about-tempelhofer-freiheit/history/national-socialism/concentration-camp-columbia-haus