Holzhausen concentration camp cemetery

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Holzhausen concentration camp cemetery

Country: Germany
Region: Landsberg am Lech district
Place: Holzhausen, Igling community
Inauguration:

The Holzhausen concentration camp cemetery is a concentration camp cemetery in Holzhausen near Buchloe , a district of the Upper Bavarian municipality of Igling in the Landsberg am Lech district . It is not far from the Magnusheim, which had been a reserve hospital since 1942 and was looked after by 38 Franciscan nuns from Dillingen and which housed a concentration camp hospital in the post-war period and a kibbutz until 1947. The cemetery is a Bavarian monument (D-1-81-127-27)

location

The cemetery is located at the foot of today's Regens-Wagner-Werke in the Gabel between Dammoosweg and Magnusstraße and borders directly on the Singold .

The dead

From April 29 to July 28, 1945 a total of 526 former concentration camp inmates from France, Romania, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Africa, Holland, Austria, Greece, Italy, Poland, Russia, Belgium, Yugoslavia, Ukraine, Luxembourg, Hungary and Germany treated, 114 of whom died in the three months after liberation. 94 of them were buried in the Holzhausen concentration camp cemetery. Thereafter, until 1948, Jewish displaced persons were repeatedly buried there. The cemetery was laid out with 6 rows of 4 by 10 and 2 by 7 graves. The individual graves no longer exist today. The currently existing 26 tombstones along the cemetery wall mostly refer to displaced persons, as these had relatives who later had individual tombstones erected. Many of the dead were exhumed in the post-war period and reburied in other cemeteries.

Of the other non-Jewish dead from the Magnusheim, eleven were buried in the Holzhausen village cemetery, six in the refugee cemetery, two in Landsberg am Lech and one in Epfenhausen.

“On April 29th, the first trucks with concentration camp inmates rolled up. The same were packed in straw. They looked miserable, half starved, and injured. They weighed 50-60 pounds. It was teeming with lice. We bathed day and night. When everyone was finished, we started all over again ... A spoonful of gruel every hour could help you slowly regain your strength. 23 people arrived dead, we couldn't find out their names and origins. Up to 10 people died daily for the first few days. We often put 3-4 in a coffin because we couldn't bring that many coffins. They were buried in the newly built cemetery on the Singold, which was determined by the American military authorities. "

- Sister Christhilde, 1985 :

See also

Web links

Commons : KZ-Friedhof Holzhausen (Igling)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

  • Constanze Werner: Concentration camp cemeteries and memorials in Bavaria. "When the new gender realizes what the old one is responsible for ...". Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-7954-2483-1 .
  • 100 years. Regens Wagner Holzhausen. sn, Igling-Holzhausen 2004.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from April 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / regens-wagner-holzhausen.de
  2. ↑ House chronicle of the Magnusheim

Coordinates: 48 ° 2 ′ 42.1 ″  N , 10 ° 47 ′ 11.8 ″  E