Gedenkveranstaltung: Erinnerungszeichen für Zwangsarbeiter*innen des Reichsbahnlagers Neuaubing

Around 13.5 million people were forced to perform forced labor in the German Reich. In the Munich area, more than 120,000 people were deployed in companies, public authorities and private households. The camp at what is now Ehrenbürgstraße 9 in Neuaubing was one of over 450 collective accommodations for forced laborers. It was built by the Reichsbahn in 1942 and was used to house up to 1,000 people who had to clean, repair and convert train carriages for war purposes until the end of the war. They came from the Soviet Union, Poland and Italy. Their everyday life was characterized by experiences of violence, hunger, cold, catastrophic living conditions and worries about daily survival.

Without their exploitation, National Socialist Germany would not have been able to wage the Second World War for so long. Large sections of society also benefited from this mass crime. After the war, it often took decades for their suffering to be recognized in Germany. It was not until the 2000s that increased civil society involvement led to the state and companies paying compensation - but this came too late for many of those affected. The barracks in Neuaubing are one of the last remaining camp complexes of this kind in Germany. The Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism is building a memorial to the history of Nazi forced labor there.

Speaking at the commemorative event at the Neuaubing memorial sitewill be

• City Councillor Sebastian Weisenburger, representing the Lord Mayor of the City of Munich
• Dr. Paul-Moritz Rabe, Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism
• Larisa Borisenko, relative of Efrosinija Surdakowa
• Peter Heesch, Freie Ateliers und Werkstätten Ehrenbürgstraße e.V. (FAUWE)
• Antje Brandl, Settlers' Association of Dornier-Eigenheimer e.V.
• Members of the settlers' association read out the biographies

• Sebastian Kriesel, District Committee Aubing-Lochhausen-Langwied

  Music: Ute Kalmer (clarinet) and Petra Maull (accordion)

Placing of the memorial signs followed by a reception in front of the entrance to the site of the
of the former Reichsbahnlager Neuaubing.