Fabrikaktion

In February 1943 the Gestapo conducted a roundup of German Jews for deportation to Auschwitz. Most Jews remaining in Germany at that time were performing forced labor in factories supporting the war effort. In Berlin, the "Factory Action" [Fabrikaktion] spurred the Rosenstrasse Demonstration, when non-Jewish family members of detainees gathered outside of the building at Rosenstrasse 2 to demand the release of their Jewish relatives.