From the beginning of 1942, the NSDAP Dresden leadership and Zeiss Ikon AG attempted to concentrate the Jewish workers assigned to the company’s Dresden Goehle Works in one labour camp. Zeiss Ikon provided a former materials warehouse that consisted of seven barracks on Dr.-Todt-Straße for this purpose. The Gestapo was permitted to use the camp for people not working at the firm as well.
On 23 and 24 November 1942, the 279 people affected – workers in the military industry, members of their families and other Jewish Dresdeners – had to leave their own homes and go to the camp. Those assigned to work in the military industry continued to work for Zeiss Ikon.
Three months later, on 27 February 1943, all the camp’s inhabitants were arrested. In the days that followed, the Gestapo transported other Jewish people from Dresden and other cities to this place. On the evening of 3 March, most of the camp’s inmates were deported to Auschwitz. The few remaining were deported to Theresienstadt (Terezín) by the end of March 1943.

Marked in 2001