MEMORY IN PRACTICE
During World War II there were more than 400 units of collective accommodation for forced laborers in the Munich area alone. In some cases the barracks were erected in the immediate vicinity of places of work or on company premises. In others, schools, gymnasiums, or guesthouses were converted into housing. Today, there are virtually no visible signs of these historic buildings. The photographer Hadas Tapouchi visited 30 of these sites, seeking to make their former presence come alive again. The interactive map of the city invites you to document changes in the urban space yourself and to share them with others, thus forging a connection between physical historical sites and digital memory space.
List of former forced labor camps in Munich
All information are based on the data base of the Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism.
Landsberger Straße 372
Ludwigsfeld, Dachauer Straße (585)
Today Auf den Schrederwiesen 27
Sustrisstraße
51 bis 100 Personen
Pasing, Landfriedstraße 35
Today Haidelweg
Flurstraße 1
today Flurstraße 4
Ten women from the Soviet Union were accommodated in the “Schießstätte” guesthouse in Feldmoching.
4 bis 10 Personen
Feldmoching
today Karlsfelder Straße 35
British prisoners of war were housed in the school from 1944.
Berg-am-Laim-Straße 142
501 bis 1000 Personen
Siedlung Harthof
Hänflingweg
11 bis 50 Personen
Hofmannstraße 52
The Russian Jufim Mandsiuk (10.11.1906 Suchowolja, Kr. Lachowetz), who was accommodated in the camp, died there on 4 October 1944 during an air raid.
Schäftlarnstraße 23
later Schäftlarnstraße 123, today overbuilt
51 bis 100 Personen
Badenweiler Straße
today Rupert-Mayer-Straße
101 bis 500 Personen
Menzinger Straße
today Bergsonstraße
Winfried-Straße
The camp housed several Italian prisoner of war work details: work detail 3487 with 150 men had to work for the Uher company, work detail 3492 with 120 men for the Süddeutsche Zählergesellschaft, work detail 3494 with 100 men for the Landesverband des Bayerischen Kohleneinzelhandels and work detail 3616 for the RAW Freimann. 31 prisoners of the latter detail were killed in an air raid on 12 September 1944 when they were buried in a cover trench of the camp.
Ludwigsfelder Straße (possibly No. 52)
Schleißheimer Straße 287
Schleißheimer Straße 418
Sonnenstraße (exhibition building)
Muthmannstraße 1
From November 1942, the camp housed 80 French prisoners of war and civilian forced labourers who had to work as unskilled labourers for the BRG company.
51 bis 100 Personen
Hansastraße 27
today Hansastraße 21
11 bis 50 Personen
Kirchenstraße 6
Geisenhausener Straße 7
Nymphenburger Straße 80
From 7 September 1943 until the end of the war, the camp housed a work detail of 24 French prisoners of war (later civilian forced labourers) who worked for the loader guild.
Bayerstraße 63
Münchner Straße 10