Memorial Sign for Dirk Koedoot,
Bingener Straße/Triebstraße

20.02.2020 09:30 a.m.

Veranstaltung

Just a few days after his 18th birthday, young Dutchman Dirk Koedoot was deported by the Nazis from his occupied homeland to Germany as a forced labourer. In Munich, he was forced to work as a baker. Homesick, he fled, but was arrested by a German patrol shortly before reaching the Dutch border and taken back to Munich. There, the Gestapo delivered him to the Moosach labour education camp.

The labour education camps, established in 1940, were under the control of the Secret State Police and were part of the apparatus of repression against dissidents or people who, in the opinion of the National Socialists, evaded compulsory labour or allegedly failed to perform certain work. After his arrival, Dirk Koedoot was punished by being forced to stand in cold water for almost an entire day. Shortly afterwards, on 20 October 1943, Dirk Koedoot died of a pulmonary haemorrhage.

Thursday, 20 February 2020
9:30 am
Memorial service for Dirk Koedoot at the Pelkovenschlössl Cultural and Community Centre
Moosacher St.-Martins-Platz 2

Councillor Julia Schönfeld-Knor, Managing Director of Pelkovenschlössl
Dieter Reiter, Lord Mayor of the City of Munich
Paul Ymkers, Consul General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Munich
Dirk Koedoot, nephew of the murdered forced labourer Dirk Koedoot
Music: Michaela Roth (flute), Tiffany Schwenke (trumpet) and Ben Hassinger (oboe), Artur-Kutscher-Realschule

10:20 am
Presentation of theMemorial Sign for Dirk Koedoot near the former Moosach labour education camp
Bingener Straße / Triebstraße