KZ Gedenkstätte
The KZ Gedenkstätte in Frankfurt commemorates victims of the Katzbach concentration camp, an external camp of Natzweiler-Struthof. The memorial stands within Frankfurt's former Adlerwerke complex.
During the National Socialist era, prisoners from different nations were forced to work there for the armaments industry. The SS supervised this forced labour at the Adlerwerke. Hunger, cold, executions and torture caused deaths among prisoners held at Katzbach. The camp's dissolution brought transports to Bergen-Belsen and a death march.
The former factory therefore carries memorial meaning alongside its industrial identity and Frankfurt setting. The Adlerwerke remain central to this history. The site connects industrial history with persecution and forced labour imposed under Nazi rule. Its educational role keeps victims' suffering in collective memory.
The memorial also recalls families affected by the crimes of the Nazi dictatorship. Frankfurt carries this history through the Katzbach remembrance site. The place gives public form to remembrance and education about forced labour at the former Adlerwerke. Its subject remains the prisoners and their suffering.
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