In the municipal cemetery, in its western part, one can find a large War Graves Cemetery devoted to the victims of World War II. The site is marked by stone plaques fixed to the wall and has a separate entrance. This is the final resting place for Germans and foreigners - mainly from Poland and the USSR. The Honorary War Graves Cemetery was established in 1961, when the remains of those who had died in the Durchgangslager Kelsterbach camp and had been buried in the forest adjacent to the camp were transferred to this site. From 1942 until 1945, in Kelsterbach and in the area of the present-day Taubengrund industrial estate, there was a large transit camp for forced labourers deported from Poland and the USSR. The exact number of those who passed through the camp is unknown, but it is estimated that it had 200 victims, including 60 children.
The names of the forced labourers who died in this transit camp and were buried in a collective grave are inscribed upon several stone plaques (214 persons) that lie next to a stone cross. The majority of the victims came from the USSR (137) and Poland (32). In the case of 30 persons, the lists of victims made after the war fail to provide their country of origin.
Cemetery address: Kelsterbach, Hesse
Friedhofstraße 40
65451 Kelsterbach
GPS: 50.07481,8.5301
Cemetery administration: Friedhofsverwaltung Kelsterbach,
www.kelsterbach.de/rathaus-verwaltung/verwaltung/aemter-und-abteilungen/friedhofsverwaltung/,
friedhof@kelsterbach.de,
Mörfelder Str. 33 65451 Kelsterbach,
+49 6107-773 330
