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Memorial in Utting

Right up to the end of the war, prisoners from the Kaufering X sub-camp were used as forced labour on the factory site of the Dyckerhoff & Widmann company. Factory operations continued in the post-war period. After the factory closed down, the production halls were demolished in 2006 and a housing estate was built.

Mahnmal für die Opfer des KZ-Lagers Kaufering X
In 2011, a memorial to the victims of Kaufering X camp was erected on the former grounds of the Dyckerhoff & Widmann factory. Source: Archiv Weißhaar

The Utting local community decided to erect a monument to the Jewish victims of the concentration camp sub-camp on the former factory site. It was officially dedicated in 2011. The design was undertaken by Bernhard Weisshaar, the then professor of the Academy of Fine Arts.

The inscription is in German and Hebrew. It reads:

HERE, ON THE FORMER FACTORY SITE OF THE FIRM DYCKERHOFF AND WIDMANN, BETWEEN JULY 1944 AND APRIL 1945, JEWISH PRISONERS FROM CAMP X OF THE LANDSBERG/KAUFERING COMPLEX, A SUP-CAMP OF DACHAU, WERE FORCED TO CARRY OUT INHUMAN FORCED LABOUR TO THE POINT OF DEATH ACCORDING TO THE MAXIM “EXTERMINATION BY WORK”