List of "return unwanted" concentration camp prisoners


This article is a list of prisoners of Nazi concentration camps designated return unwanted, which was used to forbid their release and indicate that their death was desired by the Nazi regime.
NameBornDiedReasonResult
18761967Opposition to the regimeSurvived Messelager Köln, Cologne-Hohenlind Hospital and Brauweiler. Avoided transport to Buchenwald by faking illness
19152006Austrian Resistance activistSurvived Ravensbrück
18701942Founder of the Czech Unitarian Church, listened to the BBCDied at Dachau
18951942Czechoslovak Resistance fighterDied at Mauthausen
18961976German Resistance memberSurvived Mauthausen and Flossenbürg
18921944Leader of the Bratislava Working Group, an illegal Jewish organization that tried to rescue European Jews, especially Slovak Jews, from the HolocaustDeported to Auschwitz 18 October 1944, led away by SS guards and never seen again
18901975Survived Mauthausen and Flossenbürg
19142000Luxembourg Resistance memberSurvived Hinzert, Sachsenhausen and Mauthausen
19011983Graphic artist; with other artists, smuggled drawings about the Holocaust into neutral countriesSurvived Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen
19192008German Resistance fighter involved in 20 July plotSurvived Sachsenhausen
19081942Czechoslovak Resistance memberKilled at Mauthausen
19011994Austrian Resistance activistSurvived Ravensbrück
19041972Witnessed the Lidice massacreEscaped from Auschwitz 5 April 1944 with the help of an SS guard
19152007German Resistance fighterSurvived Ravensbrück, Natzweiler-Struthof and Munich-Allach
19212009Austrian Resistance activistSurvived Auschwitz and Ravensbrück
19202019Polish [resistance movement in World War II|Polish Resistance] memberSurvived Ravensbrück
19151944German Resistance fighterKilled himself at Mittelbau-Dora
19111984German Resistance fighterSurvived Dachau, Natzweiler-Struthof and Buchenwald
19231944Relationship with a Polish forced laborer resulting in pregnancyDied at Ravensbrück
19202013German Resistance member; wrote anti-war letters to soldiersSurvived Fuhlsbüttel and Ravensbrück
19142003Subversive statements and listening to foreign radio stationsSurvived Sachsenhausen and Neuengamme
19192000German Resistance member; daughter of Ernst ThälmannSurvived Ravensbrück