- 2035/31 Mezi Vodami Street, Praha 12 - Modřany
Camp Rupa Modřany
The Rupa Modřany Internment Camp was located on the premises of the Rupa confectionery factory, which Rudolf Pachl established in 1914. In 1944, a barracks dormitory was built nearby for the forced labourers of the German Reich’s company Junkers. Shortly after the war, it was transformed into a local detention camp and, subsequently, in July 1945, into a state-controlled detention camp.
The number of interned individuals developed spontaneously. By the end of August 1945, there were 1,100 German civilians, while in the spring of 1946, their numbers increased to almost 2,000. In total, about 20,000 individuals passed through this internment camp. They included, above all, interned German nationals and Czech collaborators from Modřany, German POWs, war refugees, and children who lost their families amid the chaos of the late war. The Rupa Modřany Internment Camp was listed among about 40 provisional concentration sites in Greater Prague, similar to the Hagibor Internment Camp. (Camp Rupa Modřany, Camp Hostivař, Strahov stadium, Camp Motol)
The displacement of the German inhabitants of Prague – the departure of the fifth transport of the Germans from Modřany, 1945. Prague City Archives.
View of the Rupa Modřany Enterprise.
