Memorial Sign for Willi Gögel,
Aberlestraße 42

Wilhelm Gögel, known as Willi, lived with his mother at Aberlestraße 42. While his single mother went to work during the day, Willi was lovingly cared for by his grandmother, as he was considered "unfit for education" by the Nazi regime due to his disability.

Two weeks before his tenth birthday on 15 October 1942, he was forcibly committed to the so-called children's ward of the Eglfing-Haar sanatorium and nursing home. Just six months later, on 15 April 1943, the institution staff deliberately murdered Willi Gögel there with overdoses of medication.

It was not until 2017, when she took over the family grave, that Trudy Creighton learned that Willi Gögel was also buried in this family grave, whereupon she and her brother Willy Kramer initiated a Memorial Sign for their cousin, which was placed at his former place of residence at Aberlestraße 42 in a solemn act of remembrance on Monday, 15 April 2024.

In addition to Trudy Craighton, City Councillor David Süß, representing the Lord Mayor of the City of Munich, Dr Mirjam Zadoff from the Munich Documentation Centre for National Socialism and Dr Sibylle von Tiedemann, Memorial Initiative for the Victims of Euthanasia, also spoke at the memorial event. After the placement of the Memorial Sign for Willi Gögel, Maren Mitterer, poetry slamer, and Markus Lutz from the District Committee 06 - Sendling gave short speeches.