From June 1944 until April 1945, in the area of the Bavarian city of Landsberg am Lech, there operated 11 sub-camps of the Dachau concentration camp, all of which shared the same name, i.e. Kaufering. As inmates of these camps, the prisoners had to build underground bunkers that were to be used as plants aimed at the production of Messerschmitt Me 262 war aeroplanes.
This was the largest complex of Dachau sub-camps, and they imprisoned 30,000 Jews mainly from countries occupied by Germany, above all from Poland. Most prisoners did not survive - they died as a result of inhumane working conditions, hunger, cold and disease. Until late November 1944, prisoners who were considered unsuitable for work were sent away to the gas chambers in the Auschwitz concentration camp. As of November 1944, more than 6,400 prisoners died in the Kaufering camps, and they were buried in 12 local cemeteries (in mass graves).
Nowadays, however, it is not possible to precisely establish the place where each victim was buried.
In the area of Stoffersberg, there were camps that were governed by kommando Kaufering II - Igling. The 490 victims that once laboured in the kommando (working unit) were buried in a collective grave in the forest not far from Stoffersberg.
The burial site is a separate area marked with a granite monument that bears, under a Star of David, the following inscription: ‘Through death to light! Here lie the victims of the concentration camp system.’
Unfortunately, as in the case of the other cemeteries for victims of the Kaufering camps, it is impossible to establish the personal data of the persons buried here.
