Illustration from Bresler, Johannes: German Hospitals and Care Facilities for the Mentally Ill in Words and Pictures, Halle a. S. 1910, p. 241.

TIEGENHOF | DZIEKANKA

Before the German occupation of Poland, the institution and nursing home founded in 1894 was called »Dziekanka«. The institution had 1,200 beds. Progressive methods and therapies were used. This ended with the beginning of the German occupation.

At the end of October 1939, the province of Posen (Poznań) was annexed to the German Reich. The Polish patients at the institution were murdered, and the institution was renamed »Tiegenhof«. It now took in patients from the German Reich.

From February 1943 onwards, there was a »children’s ward« where hundreds of children and young people were murdered under the medical supervision of Walter Kipper.

From September 1944 onwards, Tiegenhof also housed a »foreigners« collection point’. It was responsible for East and West Prussia and the Wartheland region. It is believed that the sick forced labourers gathered in the »Old Reich« were transferred to either Tiegenhof or Meseritz-Obrawalde in late autumn 1944 to be murdered there.

A total of around 3,600 adult patients were murdered in Tiegenhof, including several hundred children and adolescents. The number of victims at the »foreigners« collection centre’ is unknown.