Departure Neuaubing
Eight barracks of a Nazi forced labor camp have been preserved in the Neuaubing district of Munich.
The camp was only one of around 30,000 mass accommodations that existed throughout Germany during the Nazi era.
Ashburn is 6,825 kilometers away from Neuaubing.
At the end of April 1945, about 7,000 forced laborers from all over Europe were staying in Neuaubing and the neighboring districts.
There were more than 13 million forced laborers throughout the German Reich during the Second World War.
Most of them, including many children and young people, had been forcibly removed from their homes in the Soviet Union, Poland, France, Italy, the Netherlands and many other countries.
They had to work for different companies: in large defense firms, in farms, family businesses or in public administration.
In most cases, the forced laborers were housed under undignified conditions in mass accommodations,
such as barracks camps, converted schools, gymnasiums or restaurants.
The barracks of the former camp in Neuaubing are some of the last remaining structures that bear witness to National Socialist forced labor.
“Departure Neuaubing” tells of historical experiences of Nazi forced labor in Europe and its effects up to the present day.
The web app brings together artistic, documentary and interactive formats and looks at the topic of forced labor from different perspectives. In the process, forced migration and exploitation, loss and memory, as well as continuities and international contexts are addressed.

MEMORY IN
PRACTICE
Hadas Tapouchi
MIND THE
MEMORY GAP
Franz Wanner
FREIHAM/
NEUAUBING
Forum DCCA
Fabian Bechtle
Leon Kahane

YEVMYNKA
AND
LOST TIME
Sima Dehgani

MUNICH,
MONACO,
MALGOLO –
and back
Alex Rühle

FORCED ABROAD
Paintbucket Games