Südfriedhof

Cemetery description

The municipal cemetery in Unna contains large burial sites for victims of World War I and World War II, above all, German civilian victims of air bombardments and German soldiers. The sites were designed and arranged in 1947.
The burial section for foreign victims of World War II is located by the northern border of the cemetery, at the level of the chapel. Two brass memorial plaques on the wall have the victims’ names inscribed upon them. The site is also marked by a sandstone monument bearing an inscription that reads: ‘Here lie 1 Latvian, 21 Polish, 1 Belgian, 2 Yugoslav and 27 Soviet citizens who, during the hard times of 1940-1945, died far away from their homelands.’
Not far from and behind the monument, there is another red sandstone monument commemorating the Soviet citizens: ‘In eternal memory of our comrades who died in Fascist slavery 1941-1945’.
The state of preservation of the burial section is very good.

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