Unterschleißheim - A man from Unterschleißheim found a booklet from 1944 in his cellar and handed it over to Mayor Christoph Böck in the town hall.
It is an operational history, it contains informative data on forced labor in the flax roasting.
The gentleman who made the booklet available to the Unterschleißheim city archives is a member of an accountant at the time for the flax roasting company.
He found the operating history in a box in the basement of his house.
On the pages between two cardboard covers, the workforce from 1944 is listed: 118 foreign female forced laborers were doing the hardest physical labor shortly before the end of the war.
They were mainly deported from Ukraine to cover labor for the German Reich, but also from Poland, Italy and other countries.
Continuous exchange with Munich city archives
New names and biographies keep appearing in the Munich City Archives.
The city of Unterschleißheim has signed a cooperation agreement with the Munich city archive so that the data is continuously exchanged and completed.
On Thursday, Daniela Benker, head of the cultural office in Unterschleissheim, presented to the culture committee how the construction of the “Nazi Forced Labor in the Flachsröste Lohhof” memorial is being promoted.
A homepage is being created that will also provide younger people with digital knowledge about forced laborers.
For this, Daniela Benker brought the designer Ruth Dieckmann into the team, who designed the website in such a way that you initially get an overview of the Nazi past and the three parts of the memorial.
With further clicks, those interested can dig deeper and deeper into the story, find names and photos of forced laborers, biographies of exploitation, deportation and murder.
The memorial is based on the ideas of the sculptor Kirsten Zeitz
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, who, among other things, stamps around 500 names into metal plates.
These plates will line the path from Lohhof train station to the memorial site.
The website will even provide information on where to find the respective metal plate with the name you are looking for.
Memorial site website
It is now about 80 percent ready.
The design is very appealing and reserved.
Daniela Benker is convinced that "the homepage can face any comparison."
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About 500 forced laborers, mostly women, many of them Jewish, were employed in the flax roasting plant.
© City Archive of Unterschleißheim
Historian Maximilian Strnad, who has been working with the city since 2010, is accompanying the construction of the memorial and the website.
It secures information on female forced laborers and is in contact with archives abroad.
The operating history from 1944, which has now been handed in to the town hall, is "extremely informative".
“The little book shows that the research is not over.
What is new for us is that so many female forced laborers were deported from Ukraine so late. "
New findings are incorporated into the website
Forced labor is one of the late topics when coming to terms with the Nazi era.
Strnad, who also works for the Munich city archive, considers the data exchange between the city of Unterschleißheim and the Munich city archive to be “extremely positive”: “There are so many relatives of the second and third generation who come to us who bring clues.
The databases are growing. ”The cultural office will continuously enter newly acquired information on the website.
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A page from the company history: List of the workforce in 1944.
© City Archive of Unterschleißheim
So far no commitment on the property issue
Regardless of all this work, the settlement of the land issue is still open.
The information center, which forms a segment of the memorial, is to be set up on a small area at the corner of Carl von Linde-Strasse and Johann-Kotschwara-Strasse, which requires a commitment from the investor, which, according to the cultural office, has still not been given.