Lübeck

It is the last place of rest of 13 Polish officers from Oflag X C, prisoners of war and Poles who died after the end of the war, residents of evacuation camps that functioned in the town in years 1945-1950. On one side of the plot there is a place commemorating 183 prisoners of various concentration camps who died in the last days of the war during the death marches, going to Neuengamme concentration camp and further, to Lübeck, where they were to be embarked on Cap Arkona and Thielbek prison ships. These victims are commemorated on 183 diagonally cut granite posts, arranged in a semicircle. There are only 30 names on the posts, the others are marked with the word UNBEKANNT - UNKNOWN.

In the middle of the semicircle, there are three larger posts with inscriptions in German:

THEY DIED

IN A DEATH

MARCH

THEY DIED

IN CONCENTRATION

CAMPS

1939

1945

HERE

LIE

THE VICTIMS

OF DESPOTISM

THEY DIED

IN YEARS

1941

1945

[translated from Polish]

On the opposite side of the plot, there are 32 oblong wooden plaques with the names, surnames and dates of birth and death carved on them. Between the plaques, there is a memorial stone with a figure of Jesus covered with a tin roof. On the stone there is a cross and an inscription in Polish:

POLAKOM

ZMARŁYM

NA

OBCZYŹNIE

W LATACH

1939–1945

RODACY

TO POLES

WHO DIED

IN

FOREIGN LANDS

IN YEARS

1939-1945

COMPATRIOTS

In front of the stone, a stone plaque was placed on the ground with an inscription in Polish, parts of which can hardly be read:

Here were laid to eternal sleep the corpses of fifteen Polish women, who died a tragic death far from their families. On 29.9.1943 in ... [illegible]

SW

Chmielewska Helena

Młynarczyk Zofia         Murasik Janie

Miś Władysława      Domagalska Julia

Czerw Maria              Róg Wanda

Serdok Anna           Socha Władysława

Kluta Bronisława        Kulig Jadwiga

Siterz Helena       Zamałko Zofia

Woźniak Irena       Wargula Genowefa

Passer-by, stop, ponder and sigh to God for a while.

He creates for them a land of eternal happiness where no longing, tears and suffering abide.

The plot in its present shape has only existed since 1990. It was created thanks to the initiative and funds of the municipal greenery and cemeteries board in Lübeck. Before that, there was no visible information about the war graves situated in this place. All the prisoners were buried in individual tombs.