Flensburg
In 1944 in the town and the district of Flensburg (Husum, Schleswig and Südtondern) the labour office registered 5,022 female workers and 11,886 forced labourers as well as 3,9691 prisoners of war, mainly from Russia and, subsequently, from Poland, France, the Netherlands and Belgium. These figures should be increased by a few thousand prisoners working in concentration camp branches, who were not registered in labour offices because they were directly subordinate to the SS as cheap labour force.
In the town, apart from small companies employing from a few to a dozen or so forced labourers, the largest exploiter was the Flennsburger Schiffbaugeselschaft shipyard, which used about 800-1200 male and female workers, depending on the needs and orders received from the Third Reich Navy. The customers also included the German railway and almost all the metal plants converted to armaments production.
For the purposes of forced labour, several housing camps and smaller quarters for prisoners of war from the work units were established. The largest camp, located at Trollsweg and consisting of 12 residential barracks, belonged to the shipyard. An average of 1200-1500 male and female forced labourers of different nationalities lived there. Camps of similar size existed at Eckernförder Landstraße (for Russians) and in Flensburg-Mürwik.
Prisoners died because of being exploited six days a week and forced to work mostly in two 12-hour shifts, with insufficient food, often without adequate medical assistance, away from their families and country of origin.
The list of names of those who were buried in plot 35 contains 194 names of Polish men and women, including seven prisoners of war, whose graves are considered as war graves under protection (original German spelling preserved):
Gierszewski Clemens
26 y.o.a.
† 25.1.1941 Flensburg
Zakowski Johann
* 4.6.1904/1906
† 5.11.1941 Siverstedt-Stenderup
Macielak Jan soldier of the French Foreign Legion
* 17.4.1911 Szersko
† 15.5.1942
Korylo Konstantin
* 20.12.1915 Karniochy pow. Nowogródek
† 2.7.1943 Berderupfeld, Flensburg region.
Romanowski Fritz Lance Corporal Rifles
* 4.8.1903 East Prussia
† 12.5.1945
Pole, German soldier?
Kolegowski Tadeusz
* 6.8.1923 probably Gogolow Wolka
† 17.5.1945 Flensburg
Barlik Stefan
* 25.12.1915 Skinwald / Polen
† 27.3.1946 Camp for Poles Flensburg
