The cemetery contains approximately 950 war graves, including more than 30 graves of Polish citizens who died or were killed in Duisburg during their forced labour, during air bombardments, or as a result of imprisonment.
The burial site for foreign victims is located at the entrance to the cemetery on the side of Varziner Street. On the plan of the cemetery it bears number 32A, and is marked as burial section A. On the edge of this burial site is an obelisk with a Russian inscription commemorating 198 Soviet citizens who lost their lives between 1941 and 1945.
According to the German War Graves Commission (Der Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e. V), 144 Soviet and 23 Polish citizens are buried in the cemetery. The available lists of those buried and of war graves provide the personal data of 31 Polish citizens whose graves can mostly be found in this burial site.
The names of the victims are inscribed upon rectangular gravestones flush with the grass to make the maintenance of the burial section easier. Their state of preservation, on account of the passing of time and the mechanical type of maintenance, is poor. In most of the cases, the gravestones are crushed and are overgrown by moss so the names inscribed upon them are hardly legible.
