Prison door from the Saarbrücker Schloss

Photographic reproduction of a cell door of the basement of the Saarbrücker Schloss where a control centre for the Geheime Staatspolizei ("Gestapo") of Saarbrücken was located since 1935. The door contains Russian, Ukrainian, French and Polish inscriptions made by prisoners. The door was only discovered in 1975 when the castle was undergoing renovation. The original door disappeared under unclear circumstances - it remains missing to this very day. The Gestapo locked up to 30 prisoners into the cells (there were five cells originally) inside the Saarbrücker Schloss before most of them were moved to the "Neue Bremm" Gestapo camp. The inscriptions on the door and walls bear witness to the torturing and interrogations committed there.
Some inscriptions directly refer to forced labour in the Saarland's mining pits, for example: "1. Archipov N.B., 9.7.1943, Delsburg No 929" in the upper section of the door and "Bočkovskij Juzik Tomas‘ evič, from Žitomir, Gorodnica district, village of Iljašivka, born in 1921, worked in the mining pits, ran away, they caught me in Lörrach, 800 km from Saarbrücken. Was imprisoned for 2 months and 2 weeks in the concentration camp and (...) was returned to work in the Neuhaus camp." in the middle section of the door.