Erinnerungsort Alter Schlachthof auf dem Campus der Hochschule Düsseldorf

On the site of the former municipal slaughterhouse in Düsseldorf-Derendorf is now the new campus of the University of Düsseldorf. In one of the buildings preserved there, the former livestock market hall, not only the campus IT and university library have found their place, but also the Old Slaughterhouse Place of Remembrance of the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences.

The place commemorates the crimes committed at this historic site during the Second World War. Almost 6,000 Jewish men, women and children from the entire government district of Düsseldorf were forced to gather in this hall for a total of seven transports. They were registered, searched and robbed and had to spend a night in the Grossviehmarkthalle (livestock market hall), full of uncertainty before what was to come. The next morning, they were deported from the nearby Derendorf freight station to ghettos in occupied Eastern Europe: to Łódź, Minsk, Riga, Izbica and Theresienstadt (today: Terezín). The ghettos were often only stopovers on the way to further concentration and extermination camps. Only a few survived the Shoah.