Holocaust Memorials - Monuments, Museums and Institutions in Commemoration of Nazi Victims

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The Bisingen local history museum consisted of an exhibition shown in 1996 with the title “The Difficulty of Memory – The Concentration Camp in Bisingen and the Oil Shale Mining during the Second World War.” It documents the traces of the camp that was set up in 1944 in which prisoners were put to work mining oil slate for fuel production. As far as is known today, during the last eight months of the war 4,000 prisoners, mostly from Eastern Europe, were deported to Bisingen, including 1,550 Jews. The events of that time are reconstructed in five rooms through photos, documents and artefacts. Different themes are addressed such as contact between villagers and prisoners, the policies of the Reich and local events, the fate of the victims and the crimes of the perpetrators. A history path created in 1998 leads to the sites of terror: the camp grounds, the oil slate factory, a mass grave. A memorial stone for the Jewish victims of the Bisingen concentration camp was dedicated at the Bisingen cemetery during a ceremony attended by former Jewish prisoners.