In the Evangelical Cemetery in Miltitz, there is a collective grave of prisoners of the ‘Miltitz’ concentration camp. The camp prisoners worked in a local disused limestone mine, on the construction of a fuel production plant under the code name of Moloch III and VI.
Most probably, these were the prisoners of the Work Education Camp III of the Todt Organisation (Arbeitserziehungslager III der Organisation Todt). Initially, those who died of exhaustion or were shot dead in escape attempts were buried outside the cemetery and next to its fence. In 1951, their remains were transferred to this cemetery and buried in the chestnut grove located next to the church and among the rhododendron bushes. The grave is marked by an erratic boulder that bears the following memorial text: ‘Here lie 17 prisoners of the concentration camp who, right before the liberation from Fascism, were murdered in the Miltitz camp. These are Soviet and Polish citizens.’ Most probably, 12 of them were of Polish origin.
The cemetery also holds the graves of 2 Polish children.
