War cemetery (Wichmannsburg)
In the Wichmannsburg war cemetery in the unified community of Bienenbüttel in the Lower Saxony district of Uelzen, a total of 11 dead from the First World War and the time of National Socialism rest in two graves.
location
The graves are located in the cemetery of St. George's Church in the Wichmannsburg part of the Bienenbüttel community. The grave of the dead from the First World War is a few meters north of the church building. The victims of the tyranny of National Socialism were buried in a grave on the northern edge of the cemetery next to a house wall.
Prisoners of war from the First World War
Three Russian prisoners of war were buried in a single grave . They died in October 1918.
Jewish victims of the tyranny of National Socialism
On April 10, 1945, the so-called procession of the lost left the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp . Due to the catastrophic conditions in the completely overcrowded train, a total of twelve bodies were removed on April 13 at a stop between Wichmannsburg and Bruchtorf . Among the deceased was an infant who was born on the way. The deceased Jewish concentration camp prisoners were buried on the spot next to the railway bed.
The dead were not exhumed until 15 years later in 1960. This could only be made possible by the Dutch lawyer Josef Weiß . He was himself on the train of the lost and had made a note of the stop at Wichmannsburg and other stations. The dead could be exhumed because a farmer in the area could roughly remember the place where the Jewish people were buried. Three dead were transferred to the Netherlands and eight dead were buried in a grave in the Wichmannsburger Friedhof. The baby's whereabouts are unknown.
A memorial plaque in front of the grave commemorates the story of those killed.
Coordinates: 53 ° 8 ′ 11.1 ″ N , 10 ° 30 ′ 24 ″ E
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d War cemetery: Bienenbüttel - Wichmannsburg, Protestant Lutheran cemetery - construction, maintenance and repair | Volksbund.de. Retrieved May 15, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Michael Jorek: The memorial stone on the cemetery in Wichmannsburg . In: Ev.-luth. St. Georgs-Kirchengemeinde (Hrsg.): St. Georgs-Bote . 2020, p. 42-44 .