Soviet war cemetery Hamburg-Bergedorf
The Soviet war cemetery Hamburg-Bergedorf is located in the New Bergedorf Cemetery on August-Bebel-Straße and is the resting place for 652 Soviet prisoners of war and soldiers who perished in the Neuengamme concentration camp .
The dead
The prisoners of war died of starvation, typhus, and murder by injections. They were buried in the earth because of their prisoner-of-war status . An alphabetical list of those buried is available.
investment
The grave field is located in the newer part of the cemetery, southeast of August-Bebel-Straße, halfway to Chapel 2. The grave sites are marked by lying stones with names, dates of birth and death. A Russian Orthodox cross with an icon towers over the burial ground. The plaque in front of it bears the inscription: "Here are 651 resting" (recte 652) "Russian prisoners of war as victims of National Socialism".
The memorial erected in 2002, the bronze sculpture of a fallen prisoner tied by the hand in front of a barbed wire fence, was created by the Russian sculptor Grigoriy Jastrebentzkiy .
Memorial, front view
Memorial, side view
Memorial, back
Other Soviet war cemeteries
- Soviet war cemetery in Hamburg-Ohlsdorf in the Ohlsdorf cemetery
- In the central area of the Harburg New Cemetery, Russian victims are buried together with victims from other nations in an oval lawn.
- 77 Russian war graves from the First World War on the Hamburg Elbe island Hahnöfersand
- Soviet war cemeteries in Germany
See also
Web links
- Soviet war cemetery Hamburg-Bergedorf at Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge, Landesverband Hamburg
- Gerd Hoffmann: Bergedorf cemetery ... its monuments tell PDF, accessed on February 26, 2014
Individual evidence
- ↑ Memorials in Hamburg: Bergedorf Cemetery: Memorial for Soviet prisoners of war
- ^ Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e. V., Hamburg regional association: names of those buried on the Soviet war cemetery in Hamburg-Bergedorf . (PDF; 67 kB)
- ↑ Bergedorf und seine Friedhöfe ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.2 MB) on a citizens' association page
- ^ Soviet war cemetery Hamburg-Bergedorf
- ↑ Gerd Hoffmann: Bergedorf cemetery ... tell its monuments
- ↑ A sculpture that gives you goose bumps. In: Bergedorfer Zeitung September 17, 2002, p. 11.
- ↑ New Harburg Cemetery
- ↑ Edgar S. Hasse: Hamburg's prison island. In: "Hamburger Abendblatt", August 21, 2017, p. 12.
Coordinates: 53 ° 28 ′ 42.4 " N , 10 ° 15 ′ 14.5" E