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.
The Wersa leather goods factory had housed up to 23 forced labourers from France and Hungary in the rooms of the Loherwirt guesthouse. The building burned down completely during an air raid in the spring of 1944, and the forced labourers were deported to Müllerstraße 11 on 25 April 1944.
11 bis 50 Personen
Giesinger Berg 5
Today green space at Giesinger Berg
Forced labourers of different nationalities were accommodated in the camp.
Pippinger Straße 26
Pippinger Straße166
today Von-Kahr-Straße 87
Dorfstraße 39, Obermenzing
The barracks, built by the Luftwaffe in 1943, housed 30 to 40 Soviet prisoners of war, among others, who had to work for the Luftwaffe.
Kenedystraße 36
today Ottobrunner Straße 26-28
From September 1940 until the end of the war in 1945, the camp housed a work detail of 20 French prisoners of war who were employed by the construction company Josef Rimböck (Lierstr. 12).
11 bis 50 Personen
Döllinger Straße (without number)
Woferlstraße 20
Brudermühlstraße 14
Steinmetzstraße/Tulpenweg
Siebenbrunner Straße 6
British and French prisoners of war were housed in the Simmernschule.
101 bis 500 Personen
Simmernstraße 2
The camp housed 160 British prisoners of war.
101 bis 500 Personen
Siegfriedstraße 22
Isartalstraße 39
The camp in the rooms of the town cellar housed a work detail of 50 French prisoners of war who were employed by the public utility company.
Rosenheimer Straße 15
today Rosenheimer Straße 5 (overbuilt/Gasteig)
The premises of the Paulanerbräu beer hall at the Wiener Hof housed 25 French prisoners of war from a locksmith’s work detail who had to work for the Müller & Sohn machine factory.
Weißenburger Straße 22
A work detail of 15 French prisoners of war was housed in the premises of the Union brewery halls for warehouse work at the company Dremmel.
11 bis 50 Personen
Äußere Wiener Straße 42/44
today Einsteinstraße 42
The premises of the guesthouse “Zum Klostergarten” housed a work detail of 20 French prisoners of war who were employed by the Müller und Sohn machine factory.
11 bis 50 Personen
Breisacher Straße 19
The Spatenkeller housed a work detail consisting of 40 French prisoners of war who were employed as labourers for various companies.
11 bis 50 Personen
Bayerstraße 109
today Bayerstraße 115 (overbuilt)
From 1942 to 1944, the camp housed a work detail consisting of 40 French prisoners of war who were employed as unskilled labourers for the company BRG.
11 bis 50 Personen
Landsberger Straße 24
The camp housed French prisoners of war who had to work for the company Straßenbau AG in the work detail 2034 of Stalag VIIa.
Helfenriederstraße 3
The company Franz Wirschitz & Co (Steinerstr. 20 Rgb.) employed Frenchmen (prisoner of war work detail 3289/2875) and Italians in a camp in Steinerstraße. When the company was hit by air raids, “Eastern workers” were also temporarily housed in the Barbaraheim/Herbst camp of the Dornierwerke in Neuaubing.
Steinerstraße 20
Boschetsrieder Straße 141
From December 1944 to May 1945, 200 to 250 British prisoners of war from India (a special work detail of Stalag VIIa) were housed in the Landesblindenschule and used for clean-up work.
101 bis 500 Personen
Ludwigstraße 15
today Ludwigstraße 25
Feldmoching, Schleißheimer Straße