Sla Casper
28 Augustus 1926 - 24 December 2018
In 2016, I received a request from the association “die Eisenbahnfreunde” from Vaterstetten to try to find out if there were any Dutch forced laborers still alive who had worked on the Feldkirchen – Zorneding railway line during the war.
The Eisenbahnfreunde wanted to establish a memorial site for the Dutch forced laborers who had to work on the aforementioned railway under appalling conditions in 1944 and 1945. In Vaterstetten, they planned to place a train carriage that was virtually identical to the carriages in which the forced laborers had to sleep and live. Inside the carriage, there would be a wealth of information about these Dutch people and their work, in the form of photographs, documents, maps, and much more.
I soon found a very elderly, but mentally very fit Mr. Casper Sla in Schiedam.
He could tell me a great deal about his work on the railway in Feldkirchen.
The placement of the train carriage has now been completed, and it is hoped to officially open the memorial site in early 2023.
In May 2004, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum interviewed Mr. Casper Sla about his experiences during the war, in which a significant amount of attention is also devoted to his work as a forced laborer on the aforementioned railway line.
This interview is on 2 videos that you can find here:
