In the Central Cemetery (Zentralfriedhof) in Quedlinburg there is a memorial site and a mass grave of prisoners from the Langenstein-Zwieberge kommando (work unit) in the Buchenwald concentration camp. The bodies of 912 prisoners were burnt in the Quedlinburg crematorium, after which some of the urns were sent back to the Buchenwald concentration camp, but most were buried in the mass grave in this cemetery.
The mass grave-site is located at the fork between burial sections Nos. 16B and 22. The names and the data concerning the deceased can be found on four bronze memorial slabs - two standing upright, and two, a bit smaller, lying on the ground. Polish citizens were among the victims of different nationalities. In the middle of the grave-site, there is a stone commemorating the victims, with an inscription saying: ‘In memory of the victims of Fascism.’ On both sides of the stone there are two brass memorial plaques with the names of victims inscribed upon them. 274 names are Polish. The list of the names is not complete since the documentation concerning the cremation of 210 bodies between 15 March 1945 and 3 April 1945 is missing. The memorial site is in a very good state of preservation (2019).
Cemetery address: Quedlinburg, Saxony-Anhalt
Badeborner Weg 15
06484 Quedlinburg
GPS: 51.78751,11.16433
Cemetery administration: Friedhofsverwaltung Welterbestadt Quedlinburg,
www.quedlinburg.de,
ronald.wenzel@quedlinburg.de,,
Zentralfriedhof, Badeborner Weg 15, 06484 Quedlinburg,
+49 3946 905-871
