Waldfriedhof

Cemetery description

The largest Waldfriedhof cemetery in Darmstadt houses numerous burial sections containing graves from the times of World War I and World War II. Among these are two large burial sections devoted to foreign forced labourers and prisoners who died during World War II.
Burial Section No. R9b can be found in the eastern part of the cemetery. The centre of the site is marked by a monument with a symbolic Crown of Thorns and an inscription on the plinth that reads: ‘In memory of the victims of the war 1939-1945.’ Along the path and around the memorial, there lie bronze gravestones with the names of the victims inscribed upon them. One of them bears some personal data of 16 Polish citizens. The right part of this burial section is marked by a black granite cross commemorating 3 Poles (Czesław Pieczykolan, Weronika Prymas and Stefania Prymas) who died in an air bombardment in September 1944. The cross was put up there by the relatives of the deceased.
Burial section R14d, located in the north-eastern part and on the edge of the cemetery, contains a massive grave of Polish and Soviet citizens. The site is marked by a large metal cross behind which there lie three rows of gravestones (metal plaques are attached to the concrete plinths) that have the names of the victims (including at least 19 Poles) inscribed upon them.
In total, the Waldfriedhof cemetery is the final resting place of at least 78 victims of World War II coming from Poland, 10 of whom remain unidentified.

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