Holocaust Memorial Palm Nod

Memorial stone at the foot of the memorial

The Palmnicken Holocaust Memorial is located on Palmnicken Beach, today's Jantarny in the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast . It commemorates the Palmnicken massacre of 5000 Jews, mostly women from Poland and Hungary, on the night of January 31st to February 1st, 1945.

Some of the victims are buried there. They were found by amber geologists in the 1960s. Since they were initially believed to be the remains of Soviet soldiers, a memorial stone “Eternal Glory for Heroes” was erected and four birch trees were planted. Only in the 1990s did the contemporary witness, Martin Bergau , 16 years old in 1945 and a member of the Hitler Youth , explain the background.

The memorial is by Frank Meisler (1925–2018). It consists of two hands reaching up to the sky. It was inaugurated in 2011. On the memorial stone at the foot of the memorial, the name boards of some of the victims are attached.

Individual evidence

54.884588 19.936098Coordinates: 54 ° 53 ′ 4.5 ″ N , 19 ° 56 ′ 10 ″ E

[1] ttps://www.wissenschaft.de/geschichte-archaeologie/ein-fast-vergessenes-massaker/#

[2] «Месть за подвиг Маринеско». История о расстреле евреев под Пальмникеном в январе 1945 года // Газета «Дворник» (Кaliningrad), January 31, 2007

[3] ttp://www.kaliningrad.aktuell.ru/kaliningrad/im_gebiet/holocaust_denkmal_in_jantarny_eroeffnet_195.html

[4] ttp://www.memorialmuseums.org/denkmaeler/view/774/Holocaustdenkmal-Palmnicken