Evangelischer Friedhof

Cemetery description

A separate war graves burial section for victims of World War I and World War II, located in the municipal cemetery in Aurich, holds the remains of 3 soldiers from the 1st Polish Armoured Division. Initially, this was the final resting place for 4 soldiers from this division. All of them died after World War II came to an end, mostly in the British military hospital in Oldenburg. At present, the burial section also holds the graves of 3 soldiers from the Polish 10th Horse Riflemen Regiment.
The following soldiers are interred here: Senior Rifleman Nikodem Gojdź, Senior Rifleman Anastazy Lewandowski and Rifleman Bronisław Chojnacki. The gravestones are marked by stone crosses maintained in the same style. The inscriptions bear the information about the first and last names and about the dates of birth and death of the deceased. The grave of the fourth soldier - a Senior Rifleman from the Polish 10th Horse Riflemen Regiment - by the name of Mowsze Milikowski, of Jewish faith - is considered to have become lost after its exhumation and relocation to the Jewish Cemetery.
At the topmost part of this burial site, there is a memorial plaque with an inscription that reads: ‘Be faithful until your death, and then I will give you the crown of life (‘Sei getreu bis in den Tod, so will ich dir die Krone des Lebens Geben’).’
The graves of forced labourers are scattered all over the cemetery and they are generally in a poor state (the on-site inspection from 2015).

Address details

Cemetery address: Aurich, Lower Saxony
Lambertshof 2
26603 Aurich
GPS: 53.471096,7.478629

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Buried persons

Chojnacki Bronisław
(1923-1947)

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Gojdz Nikodem
(1903-1946)

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Lewandowski Anastazy
(1923-1946)

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Milikowski Mowsze
(†1946)

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