Westerstede

Based on archival documents, it was possible to complete and correct data on the killed soldiers inscribed on the tombstones:

Golankowicz Józef, Corporal, 10th Supplies Company * 10.08.1911 Vilnius † 15.05.1945 Westerstede, field hospital. R-C. Serv. Number 1911/33/I-21049

Data from the tombstone, original spelling preserved:

Josef Golankowiz * 10.8.1911 † 15.5.1945

Kłak Edmund, Rifleman, 10th Mounted Rifle Regiment * 22.10.1924 Bethune (France) † 03.05.1945 Halsbek. R-C. Serv. Number 1924/733/I-60438

Data from the tombstone, original spelling preserved:

Aleksander Klak † 3.5.1945

Muszalski Zygmunt, Sergeant Major, 10th Supplies Company * 18.08.1907 Cielec pow. Turek † 16.05.1945 Apen Westerstede. R-C. Serv. Number 1907/16/I-11612

Data from the tombstone, original spelling preserved:

Zygmunt Muszalski * 18.8.1907 † 16.5.1945

Zajdel Andrzej Antoni, Sergeant Major, 10th Supplies Company * 07.11.1905 Krosno † 14.05.1945 Westerstedt, field hospital.  R-C. Serv. Number 1905/27/I-4901

Data from the tombstone, original spelling preserved:

Andrzej Saidel * 7.11.1905 † 14.5.1945

Moreover, at the cemetery, about 50 metres to the right from the plot of honour, there are two mass graves where several dozen forced labourers from Poland, Ukraine, Estonia, Lithuania and the Netherlands were buried together with forced labourers' babies. There are 12 babies of forced labourers lying among 24 Poles who died during the war or after it due to heavy labour, insufficient nutrition and lack of medical care.

The following are the names of Poles copied from the tombstones, in alphabetical order (original spelling preserved):

In another part of the cemetery there is a memorial cross made of granite. The inscription carved on it reads:

FRANZ CICHOCKI * 7.2.1944 † 5.3.1944

STANISLAW DUBICKI * 11.1.1945 † 28.2.1946

MICHALINA DUBICKA * 10.10.1880 † 17.9.1943

ANNA DUBITZKI 10.1.1912 † 16.11.1943

MICHAS GIBOSTWIER * 2.8.1917 † 26.11.1941

TADEUS GOS * 25.4.1945 † 3.5.1945

STANISLAW HODYL * 13.3.1934 † 18.3.1944

STANISLAW KOPIJ * 21.3.1890 † 18.3.1945

EDWARD KURYLUK * 17.11.1945 † 24.3.1946

EDWARD KOZUSZKE * 13.12.1944 †9.4.1946

STANISLAW KURZGWA * 10.4.1905 † 13.3.1942

SYSI LESZCZYN * 2.2.1945 † 25.8.1945

MORIAN LESZCZYN * 10.9.1946 † 27.10.1946

JOSEF NEUMANN * 22.7.1912 † 21.10.1941

HENRYK NIECZPIEL * 20.7.1945 † 29.8.1945

MARKO PETRYK * 2.5.1926 † 10.5.1945

TERESA PIETRCZUK * 31.5.1945 † 10.7.1946

WLODIMIE SZAJUK * 25.2.1944 † 12.3.1944

JOSEF SIWIK * 24.11.1902 † 1.12.1940

SABINE SROKA * 28.9.1920 † 22.9.1940

JOSEF STACHURA * 19.3.1892 † 23.8.l941

Knabe (chlopiec) TOBOLA * 3.1.1942 † 3.1.1942

FRANZIZEK TRAWNICKI * 20.7.1916 † 12.4.1944

STANISLAW WZGORDA * 18.7.1902 † 29.9.194?

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