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Alllendorf, Münchmühle camp:

The Münchmühle camp in Stadtallendorf, Hesse, was a remote camp of the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar. 
On August 13, 1944, 1,000 Jewish Hungarian women from Auschwitz were deported  to  the camp. The oldest was 52 and the youngest only 14. Earlier, they were deported to Auschwitz with their family members, and although there were those who were selected to force labour in Allendorf with their sister or mother, all of them lost relatives, many of them their whole family.
They arrived on 17. August, 1944 and  to the end of March 1945, they were housed in the Münchmühle camp. They were forced labourers in the neighboring explosives factory, a subsidiary of Dynamit AG. 

The camp was evacuated on March 28, 1945, and the empty site was reached by the Allies on March 30. After the war, many women returned home, but many others settled down in other countries, e.g. in Israel, Canada or the United States. 

The full list, with the names of 1000 women, dates of birth, and place of birth, can be found in Éva Fahidi's book: The Soul of Things, which has been published in Hungarian, German, Italian and English. Eve is one of these thousand women. She also lost her family in Auschwitz and a total of her 49 family members were murdered during the Holocaust.

In 1988 a memorial was set up on the site of the former Münchmühle camp. In 1994 the Documentation and Information Center (DIZ) Stadtallendorf the first and oldest memorial in Germany about forced labour was founded.

The DIZ commemorates the exploitation of 17,500 to 20,000 forced labourers in the 1938 explosives and ammunition factories of the DAG and WASAG near Allendorf 1939-45, the largest armaments industry settlements in Europe at the time.

The website

For the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the camp, we created a website that commemorates these 1,000 extremely brave and strong women in the virtual space. It is a memorial site that preserves the memory of these women, pays homage to their lives, and tries to reach the younger generations. Instead of emptying and formal remembrance, we”d like to find and involve as many survivors, descendants, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, relatives, acquaintances as possible so that they can share stories, memories and photos that bring the memory to life for those who lost their family members during the Holocaust and also for those, for whom Soá is just a chapter in the history book.

We use the free version of Google translate now on the website but it works with many mistakes, sorry for that. We consider it very important to make the content available not only in Hungarian but also in English, German and Hebrew, as the descendants of 1,000 women live in different countries of the world. It’s also important for us that Hungarian is the default language since these 1,000 women were deported to Auschwitz from Hungary, where during the decades of socialism no one talked about the Holocaust, children did not learn about it at history lessons and most of the time survivors did not speak about it to their descendants. Therefore, in Hungary there’s a bigger need to face history than, say, in Germany. 
 

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