Adam Golub und Georgij Lebedenko
The Adam Golub und Georgij Lebedenko memorial stands in Frankfurt, in the Adlerwerke area once occupied by the Katzbach concentration camp. The place commemorates two forced labourers killed on 14 March 1945.
Adam Golub was nineteen, while Georgij Lebedenko was twenty-six when they escaped from the camp. Katzbach operated as an external Buchenwald camp, holding more than 1,600 prisoners under brutal conditions. SS men captured Lebedenko on Kriegkstraße and executed him there, leaving his body displayed for several hours. Golub hid in a cellar on Lahnstraße before local residents informed the SS. He was then executed in front of numerous witnesses.
Golub Lebedenko Platz has formed part of Frankfurt’s remembrance culture since 1998. The memorial connects those street locations with the largely forgotten history of the camp and its victims. Its most unsettling detail lies in the nearby streets: Kriegkstraße and Lahnstraße still mark the final movements of two young men.
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