The Berlin Altglienicke municipal cemetery is located in the Treptow-Köpenick district. In its U2 section (to the left of the main entrance) there is a grave-site with the ashes of over 1,300 persons who fell victim to the Nazi ideology. The urns form a sort of mass grave. Between 1940 and 1943, burials took place en masse to avoid publicity.
The site was marked by a plain stone tablet placed there in the 1970s, bearing this inscription: ‘In memory of 1284 murdered anti-fascists whose remains were buried at this site.’
The Altglienicke cemetery is a burial place for victims murdered in the concentration camps of the Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald and Dachau concentration camps, patients killed in Nazi extermination centres in Hartheim, Bernburg, Grafeneck, Brandenburg and Hadamar as well as victims executed in the Berlin - Plötzensee prison. Among those more than 1,300 victims, a very large group - over 440 people - were Polish citizens mostly killed in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, 18 of whom were Polish Catholic priests.
In 2018, Berlin local authorities decided to worthily commemorate the victims and develop this part of the cemetery, which was neglected. On 27 September 2021, the ceremony of opening this memorial site took place. At present, the graves are marked by a monument created by Katharina Struber (artist) and Klaus Gruber (architect) whose main part is a green glass wall with the names of the victims inscribed upon it - all hand-written by current residents of Berlin.
Cemetery address: Berlin, Berlin
Schönefelder Chaussee 100
12524 Berlin
GPS: 52.41116,13.52749
Cemetery administration: Straßen- und Grünflächenamt Fachbereich Grün,
goetz.mueller@ba-tk.berlin.de,
Neue Krugallee 4 12435 Berlin,
(030) 90297-5983,
