According to the available city sources providing information about the city of Verden, the Cathedral Cemetery is the final resting place for approximately 200 victims of both World War I and World War II who are buried in two burial sites and in one collective grave.
At the end of the cemetery, on the right side, there is a grave-site for 53 forced labourers, mostly Polish, Soviet and Dutch as well as their children. The site is surrounded by a hedgerow. The deceased are buried in single and collective graves. However, only 29 gravestones have survived until today. The more than 50 children, mostly of women forced labourers, are commemorated by a stone stele bearing the following inscription: ‘In memory of the children of women forced labourers from Eastern Europe, children from Belgium and the Netherlands who died in Verden/Aller.’
There is also a memorial column with the names of identified children inscribed upon it, whose graves have not survived.
To the right of the entrance and next to the chapel, there is another war graves burial site containing the remains of German soldiers who fell in World War I and World War II, as well as Polish, Slovakian, Soviet prisoners of war and Dutch labourers.
Directly next to this burial site (at the back) there is a mass grave of 65 victims of both World Wars, whose last remains were moved here in 1961. This event is commemorated by a stone stele.
