Transport from Muenchen, München (München), Bavaria, Germany to Auschwitz Birkenau, Extermination Camp, Poland on 13/03/1943

In a nationwide operation a week later, the Gestapo began to arrest and deport the remaining Jews enrolled in forced labor. The majority of the arrests were conducted in Berlin, where roughly two thirds of these Jews lived. During the subsequent weeks they were deported to Auschwitz and Theresienstadt in mass deportations. This operation, called the “Fabrikaktion” (“Factory Action”), was carried out all over Germany until mid-March 1943. Although the transport that departed from Munich to Auschwitz on March 13, 1943, was part of the Fabrikaktion, it was unlike the transports that left Berlin: many of the deportees in this transport were already at the assembly point at Berg am Laim and others were brought in from several places Upper Bavaria, so there was no need for raids as was the case in Berlin. The deportation of the Jewish workers led to a labor shortage in Munich, which, in March 1943, was met by importing foreign forced laborers and POWs. Some 65 Jews in Munich were engaged in forced labor for the private sector; more than half of them working for the Kammerer telephone factory near Tassiloplatz. When these forced laborers were deported they were not replaced....