Most of the 1,000 victims of World War II buried in the Fiskusfriedhof cemetery are foreign citizens. Their graves section No. 6a is located in the central part of the cemetery.
It is a vast burial site with rows of stone plaques bearing the victims’ names. On the edge of this burial section there is an obelisk with an inscription in German (with one phrase in Polish: ‘Glory to the memory of the victims of Fascism.’) that states: ‘Here lie Polish victims of the war. Their death is a warning to us.’ The obelisk bears another inscription in Russian talking about 567 Soviet victims buried here. Mention must be made, however, that citizens of the Second Polish Republic who, after 1939, found themselves on the territories occupied by the Soviet Union, were treated as Ostarbeiter (Eastern workers). Therefore, after their death, their names were added to the Soviet lists of graves. In all probability, then, Polish names are among those 567 Soviet victims.
In total, 94 identified Polish citizens and an unknown number of unidentified victims are buried in the cemetery.
The foreign victims burial site is very well maintained, and the gravestones are legible and well-preserved.
Cemetery address: Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia
Fiskusstr. 147
47167 Duisburg
GPS: 51.502076,6.812017
Cemetery administration: Wirtschaftsbetriebe Duisburg - Anstalt des öffentlichen Rechts,
www.duisburg-friedhof.de,
