Friedhof Frille

Cemetery description

The north-eastern part of the Evangelical Cemetery in Petershagen-Frille contains a burial site for Polish citizens. Beneath a stone cross marked with a Polish crowned eagle and the name of this burial site inscribed in Polish and English: ‘Cmentarz Polskich Wysiedleńców (Polish D.P.’s cemetery 1945–1947 Frille),’ lie three stone slabs with the names of the almost 140 persons buried here. The names inscribed upon the slabs are quite illegible though.
The majority (approx. 80) were Polish children born after World War II whose parents stayed in the camps for displaced persons in the area of Petershagen and Minded who found themselves in Germany mostly as forced labourers deported to the Third Reich during World War II.
The established list of the deceased interred in this burial site mentions 123 names while the identity of approximately 20 persons remains unknown. Among these, most probably, are the persons coming from other countries occupied by Germany during the war. However, the distorted first and last names in the list make it very difficult to confirm this fact.

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