Bad Rehburg

Grabsteine mit den Namen der verstorbenen polnischen Zwangsarbeiter und Insassen verschiedener Lager

In the burial plot of World War II victims there are 24 tombstones that - apart from Polish names - bear the names of Russians, Yugoslavs, Lithuanians, Belgians, Romanians and 1 Dutch, but also Germans from the First World War. Most of the deceased from the post-war period were forced labourers and prisoners of surrounding gulags as well as 26 children and five former prisoners of war. The deceased were mainly patients of the Montgomery Red Cross hospital established by the British after the war, which treated liberated prisoners of concentration camps, prisoners of war and former forced labourers who required intense medical care after years of imprisonment for tuberculosis and exhaustion. Many received medical assistance too late.

One of the deceased was second lieutenant Witold Kazimierz Klippel a.k.a. "Kopczewski", a soldier of the Home Army and participant of the Warsaw Uprising (plot No. 7, row 4, tomb No. 49).

The cemetery is located in a park, near the B 441 road leading out of the town towards Wunstorf. The plot is neat and taken care of by the municipal greenery and cemetery administration authority.