Dresdner Mahndepots – KUNSTPLAN

LOCATION 17: Florastraße 14

17In autumn 1944, the Universelle-Werke J. C. Müller & Co. installed a further production facility in the building complex at Florastraße 14, not far from its main building in Zwickauer Straße. Until April 1944, women inmates from concentration camps had made motor parts for aircraft produced at the Junkers Works in Dessau. The new camp was attached to the Flossenbürg concentration camp, whose records mention it for the first time on 9 October 1944. The report on the number of working inmates for this day lists 500 female inmates who had been taken to Dresden from the Ravensbrück concentration camp.
There were at least eight concentration camp satellite camps with almost 3,000 inmates in the city of Dresden at the turn of the year 1944/45.
Until February 1945, an average of 600 women were held at the Florastraße camp. In the night of 13 February 1945 the buildings were hit by several bombs. A large number of women inmates were killed, but some succeeded in fleeing. The SS sent new inmates to replenish the workforce. On 14 April 1945 the evacuation began. The inmates left Dresden on foot via Pirna and Aussig (Ústí nad Labem) for Leitmeritz.

Marked in 2001