Subcamp Frankfurt am Main

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Memorial plaque for the prisoners of the Frankfurt satellite camp

The Frankfurt concentration camp with the code name Katzbach was a subcamp in the Adlerwerke in Frankfurt am Main in Plant I in Weilburger Strasse and belonged to the main camp Natzweiler-Struthof in Alsace. It was established on August 22, 1944. This was supposed to cover the workforce requirements of the plant for the production of chassis and engines for armored personnel carriers, as conventional forced laborers were no longer sufficient. Most of the concentration camp prisoners there were abducted during the Warsaw uprising and brought to Frankfurt via the Dachau concentration camp . The highest occupancy was 1139 prisoners with a storage area of ​​1300 m². A total of 1,600 prisoners came to the camp, of whom 528 died in Frankfurt. On March 13, 1945, 500 dying, sick and unfit prisoners were locked in freight wagons and had to wait there for three days before being transported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp . Only eight of them survived Transport and the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. On March 24, 1945, an evacuation march of 400 prisoners to the Buchenwald concentration camp began and some of them continued to the Dachau concentration camp. Few of these prisoners survived.

Concentration camp prisoner grave, Frankfurt main cemetery

The 528 prisoners who died in Frankfurt were initially buried in the confiscated Jewish cemetery and in 1948 they were buried in a mass grave in the Frankfurt main cemetery.

Commemoration of the evacuation and the death march in March 1945

To commemorate the 70th anniversary of these events, actions, films, readings and performances will be organized by three artists in Frankfurt am Main from 2013 to 2015 inclusive.

literature

  • Kaiser, Ernst and Knorn, Michael: We lived and slept between the dead, 3rd revised and expanded edition, Campus-Verlag 1998, ISBN 3-593-36163-9

Web links

Commons : Subcamp Frankfurt am Main  - collection of images, videos and audio files

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Initiative against forgetting: Forced Labor in the Adler Works , accessed November 27, 2014
  2. ↑ http://de.wn.com/adlerwerke
  3. ↑ 2014 - Maragete Rabow: Disturbances and irritations in public space
  4. ↑ 2015 - Kulturportal der Stadt Frankfurt about Stefanie Grohs: Mitten unter uns , accessed on August 11, 2015
  5. ^ Project page of the art intervention "Mitten unter uns" , accessed on August 11, 2015

Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 4.2 "  N , 8 ° 38 ′ 34.7"  E