During the evacuation of the Landsberg/Kaufering subcamp complex at the end of April 1945, trains with concentration camp prisoners of board were assessed to be for military transport and attacked. One of the transport trains with concentration camp prisoners arrived at Schwabhausen on the morning of 27 April. After the arrival of a further train with soldiers, anti-aircraft defences and logistic wagons that was positioned next to the train with the concentration camp prisoners on the railway embankment, an air attack took place.

Die Soldaten, die SS-Wachmannschaft und die KZ-Häftlinge suchten Schutz im nahegelegenen Wald. Dabei wurden flüchtende KZ-Häftlinge von den Wachen niedergeschossen oder erschlagen. Andere versteckten sich in der näheren Umgebung.

The soldiers, the SS guards and the concentration camp prisoners sought safety in the nearby wood. As this happened, fleeing concentration camp prisoners were shot or beaten by the guards. Others hid themselves in the immediate surroundings. After the air attack, the SS drove the concentration camp prisoners back onto the train and continued the journey to the Dachau concentration camp, where the prisoners arrived on the evening of 28 April. The dead, wounded and concentration camp prisoners not attacked by the SS were allowed back into Schwabhausen. The Jewish prisoners’ doctor, Zalman Grinberg, organised the transport of the wounded to the nearby Wehrmacht military hospital of St. Ottilien.

On 29 April 1945, the approximately 130 dead were buried by the inhabitants of Schwabhausen in three mass graves on the railway embankment. Neither the names nor the places of origin of the Jewish victims are known.