Memorial Plate Former Concentration Camp Subcamp Vienna-Floridsdorf

On October 23, 2018, the district council of Floridsdorf and the association of NS victim families and resistance fighters of Austria unveiled a memorial plaque in Hopfengasse 12 commemorating the concentration camp's subcamp of Mauthausen in Floridsdorf, which was located at this site between July 13, 1944, and April 1, 1945. The SS had established the camp on the grounds of the Hofherr-Schrantz company, where today the sports field of the Floridsdorfer Athletiksport Club (FAC) is located. The approximately 2,800 prisoners from the concentration camp's subcamps in Vienna-Floridsdorf were forced to work in production facilities of the Heinkel company and the Accumulatoren-Fabrik Aktiengesellschaft (AFA). They mostly originated from Poland and the Soviet Union. When the Red Army advanced towards Vienna, the SS evacuated the camp and sent the prisoners on a forced march to the concentration camp Mauthausen, where survivors arrived on April 11, 1945. During the march, at least 121 prisoners were killed.