Collection camp Berg am Laim

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The assembly camp Berg am Laim (in the official Nazi parlance, “Heimanlage für Juden in Berg am Laim”) was a assembly and transit camp for Jews in Munich between 1941 and 1943 .

history

Memorial for the collective camp Berg am Laim

The assembly camp was set up in July 1941, a few months after the assembly camp was set up in Milbertshofen , in part of the monastery of the Sisters of Mercy in Bavaria , at Sankt-Michael-Strasse 16 in the Berg am Laim district of Munich .

At first, mostly old and sick people of Jewish origin were brought there. However, most of the inmates were required to do hard physical labor and had to walk long distances to their workplaces every day. In addition, they had to pay for board and lodging in the camp. The sisters of the monastery were forbidden to have contact with the inmates, but this was partly ignored. The camp accommodated up to 320 people in 38 rooms on two floors. The organizational management was entrusted to Jewish people: the director of the home was Curt Mezger , the director of the economy Else Rosenfeld , and the camp doctor Julius Spanier .

From November 1941 the deportations of the Jews to the extermination camps began . Most inmates were aware of their situation and the number of suicides in the camp increased. In April 1942, the children of the Antonienheim were first brought to Berg am Laim before they were transported further, and a few months later the remaining prisoners from the disbanded camp in Milbertshofen. In March 1943 the camp in Berg am Laim was closed.

The monastery wing in which the camp was located was demolished in the 1980s.

memorial

At the place of the collection point, near the parish church of St. Michael on Clemens-August-Straße, there is now a memorial. It was created in 1987 by Nikolaus Gerhart and consists of a granite block that blocks the passage of the still preserved, now free-standing portal of the former monastery wing. Small pebbles are often placed on the granite block, like those of relatives on Jewish gravestones when visiting the cemetery . A plaque commemorating Else Rosenfeld is attached to the fence next to the memorial .

Coordinates: 48 ° 7 '32.03 "  N , 11 ° 37' 50.3"  O

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