Friedhof Manfort

Cemetery description

In the eastern part of the Municipal Manfort Cemetery in Leverkusen, there is a war graves burial section containing the graves of foreign citizens forced to labour for the Third Reich during World War II. The stone obelisk bears an inscription in German that reads: ‘In memory of the forced labourers, mostly from Eastern Europe, who died in Leverkusen and who fell victim to the National-Socialist regime. Only in this place alone were more than 200 adults and 70 children buried.’
The six stone slabs arranged along the path leading from the memorial up to the tall stone cross bear the names of 200 deceased - the surnames only. The first names, the dates and the nationalities of the dead are not mentioned. Moreover, most of the surnames are misspelt and hardly legible. The site is the final resting place for more than 60 Polish citizens - women, men and children.

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