Friedhof Unter den Linden

Cemetery description

In the north-western part of the ‘Under the Lime Tree Cemetery’ (Unter den Linden) in Reutlingen, there is a memorial site and a grave containing the remains of concentration camp victims. Under the sarcophagus created, in 1952, by the sculptor Richard Raad, rest the ashes of 128 men from 15 countries, (29 from Poland) above all those who were Jewish. In the autumn of 1944, the victims were transported from the Auschwitz and Stutthof concentration camps to the sub-camps of concentration camps in Württemberg, where hundreds of them died of hunger and exhaustion. Between October 1944 and January 1945, the bodies of 128 victims of the Hailfingen/Tailfingen, Bisingen, Dautmergen and Schömberg camps were burnt in the crematorium in Reutlingen. It is these victims that are commemorated by the monument and their personal data are inscribed upon a stone plaque.
Additionally, along the western border of the cemetery spreads another burial site. This is marked by stone crosses and plaques that bear the victims’ names. Among these are several Polish citizens.

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