# Erinnerungsort Topf & Söhne

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Erinnerungsort Topf & Söhne stands in Erfurt’s former administrative building, preserving a place of industrial history and remembrance. The rooms retain their stripped-back condition, while a factory model and memorial stone stand outside. An inscription, “Stets gern für Sie beschäftigt, ...,” remains visible from the nearby railway station and Weimarische Straße.

J. A. Topf und Söhne, founded in 1878, supplied crematorium ovens and ventilation systems for SS gas chambers. The permanent exhibition on the third floor examines this involvement through correspondence, construction drawings, orders, and shipping notices. Telegrams from camp officials requesting new oven designs show how routine business handled technology used for mass murder. Accounts of the Sonderkommandos widen the focus beyond machinery and corporate production.

The second floor presents special exhibitions and includes a conference room for discussion and audiovisual material. The building opened as a historical site in 2011, after years of activism and public debate. Its most striking detail remains the businesslike inscription, suspended above a site where ordinary administration served extraordinary crimes.

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## Photos

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- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_ErinnerungsortTopfShne_67ebdccc5015e576396bb102_1.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Telegramm_von_SS-Funktionären_an_die_Firma_J._A._Topf_&_Söhne.JPG)
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- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_ErinnerungsortTopfShne_67ebdccc5015e576396bb102_3.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Denkmal_Topf_Söhne_Erfurt.JPG)
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