Cmentarz więźniów KL ”Am Baderberg“

Cemetery description

The cemetery of prisoners of the concentration camp in Berga/Elster (KZ-Häftlingsfriedhof Am Baderberg) contains the graves of 315 prisoners of varied nationality of the Schwalbe V camp - the sub-camp of the Buchenwald concentration camp. 15 of them were Polish citizens.
Several hundred prisoners died in the final months of the war during the construction of the underground fuel plant in Schwalbe V. According to the post-war account by French prisoner Henri Pareau, and the later investigations carried out on the scene, the deceased were originally buried in small collective graves (from 3 to 5 persons).
In 2020, the cemetery was redesigned and renovated, and the names of the victims were inscribed upon 75 granite pillars. The commemorative stone bears an inscription that reads: ‘In this grave lie 315 concentration camp prisoners murdered in Berga/Elster in the period between November 1941 and April 1945, and are buried here. They came from Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Yugoslavia, Holland, Austria, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, the USSR and Hungary. Most of the victims were Jewish. May their souls be bonded in the covenant of eternal life.’

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