The municipal Old Cemetery (Alter Friedhof) in Schwerin is the final resting place for over 4,140 war victims buried in several burial sections. The graves of 62 (identified) Polish citizens can be found in three large war graves burial sections, though the actual number of Polish war victims buried in this cemetery might be much higher. The available lists of graves include the names of persons who died in the months following the end of World War II, but they lack any information as to their nationality. The reason is that the much-distorted personal data make it impossible to establish the proper spelling of the names or the nationality of the deceased. Additionally, a large number of victims (of concentration camps, in particular) were buried anonymously.
The Polish graves are located in burial section No. XX, next to the figure of Christ in the eastern part of the cemetery, in burial sections Nos. Va and Vb opposite the cemetery chapel, and in burial section No. XVI in the part of the cemetery adjacent to Flotow Street. All of these places contain the graves of soldiers, prisoners of war, and civilians from the USSR, Poland, Lithuania, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Italy, Ukraine and Hungary. The names of some of the victims are inscribed upon metal memorial plaques while the burial sections are marked by symbolic crosses.
Cemetery address: Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Obotritenring
19059 Schwerin
GPS: 53.62412,11.39561
Cemetery administration: Friedhofsverwaltung,
www.sds-schwerin.de/bestattungen-friedhoefe/kriegsgraeber/,
friedhof@sds-schwerin.de,
Am Krebsbach 1, 19061 Schwerin,
