The Hermelsbach cemetery in Siegen contains a large burial site for victims of World War II. The monument erected here mentions 377 forced labourers, citizens of the USSR, who are buried here. Actually, however, approximately 100 of them were Polish citizens. Many were men and women former forced labourers and their children who, after the war, stayed in so-called ‘displaced persons’ camps, and died just after the war. The names of the victims are inscribed upon stone crosses or, partly, on a stone stele standing in this burial site.
