Salzgitter Thiede

Tombstone of a Polish forced labourer at the cemetery in Salzgitter-Thiede
Tombstone of a Polish forced labourer at the cemetery in Salzgitter-Thiede

They are surrounded by thousands of prisoners who were employed in the neighbouring arms industry facilities from the Salzgitter agglomeration. In its suburbs, mainly including smaller or bigger villages, such as Thiede and labourer housing estates, there are thousands more graves of forced labourers and prisoners of war, deprived of rights vested in them under conventions, who worked on farms and in small facilities or workshops.

Their names are taken (in original spelling) from death certificates issued by offices of vital records:

 

CZEPIZUR GERTRUD * 11.9.1943 † 1.1.1945, death certificate Thiede 1/45, buried in row 3, grave No. 51

 

KRIMSKAJA WALIA * 15.4.1944 † 24.1.1945, death certificate Thiede 14/45, buried in row 3, grave No. 54

 

PAWLISZEWSKI ZDZILAUS (Zdzisław) * 27.5.1927 † 21.1.1944, student, residing in Steterburg (commune of Thiede), death certificate Watenstedt 51/44, buried in plot 1, row 10, grave No. 155

 

SERBIAK MARIANNA née MAZUREK * 3.2.1868 † 6.1.1945, death certificate Thiede 3/45, buried probably in the First World War victims' plot, grave No. 13.

 

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