The Stutthof concentration camp (KL Stutthof) was established on 2 September 1939 near the village of Sztutowo, some thirty kilometres east of Gdańsk. The first German concentration camp created outside the 1937 borders of the Reich, on Polish soil, it operated until May 1945.
Nearly 110,000 inmates of around thirty nationalities were interned there; about 65,000 of them met their death. Among them were French detainees, deported in particular during the final years of the war. The camp was liberated by the Red Army in May 1945. The site is today a State Museum (Muzeum Stutthof), which preserves the memory of the victims.