Kath. Friedhof der St. Hedwig und St. Pius Gemeinde

Cemetery description

The graves of those who died in World War II in the Roman Catholic Cemetery of St Hedwig and St Pius can be found in the burial sections located at the end of this oblong cemetery, to the left of the main alley.
The St Hedwig Catholic Cemetery IV is one of the several Berlin necropolises in which foreign forced labourers - men, women and children - were interred during World War II. Between 1943 and 1946, more than 2,000 war victims of different nationalities found their final resting place here in both single and collective graves. Among the deceased were citizens of mostly the USSR, Poland and Germany.
In the years 1954-1955, two stones were placed in the cemetery to commemorate the victims from Middle and Eastern Europe and from Germany. The burial sites were redeveloped in 2006 - the graves were marked by means of 430 stone stelae with 4 victims’ names inscribed upon each of them. The names of the deceased whose individual final resting places have not been identified so far were engraved collectively upon several bronze plaques.

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