The Am Horn war graves cemetery is not easy to find as it is located by a road with no name and on the edge of a forest, among fields. The nearest town is Rehren.
The site holds the graves of more than 300 or even 400 women, men and children. The deceased died in a collective concentration camp near Rehren for sick forced labourers or for forced labourers unsuitable for work that were deported from the USSR and Poland. The sanitary and living conditions in the camp were very bad, which resulted in a very high mortality rate. Initially, the dead were buried in the Jewish cemetery in Hattendorf but, as of summer 1942, burials took place here in the Am Horn cemetery. Those buried here were mostly citizens from the USSR but the list contains information on several dozen Poles. With time, a certain number of the dead were moved to this site from other graves located in the Schaumburg district.
The central part of the cemetery is marked by a Soviet memorial with an inscription in Russian and a memorial plaque that bears the following text in German: ‘In eternal memory of the fallen who died in battle for the freedom and independence of the Soviet homeland during the Great War. Here lie 400 Soviet citizens who were murdered or died of hunger in Fascist Germany.’
The cemetery is marked by 13 stone stelae, eight of which have the names of the Polish and Soviet war victims inscribed upon them, while the remaining stelae have Orthodox crosses placed on them. The state of preservation of the memorials is satisfactory.
