The municipal cemetery in Vaihingen an der Enz contains the graves of approximately 50 Polish citizens. Most were prisoners of the Vaihingen/Enz sub-camp of the Natzweiler-Strutthof concentration camp. They died just after the war in the hospital run by the UNRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration). In the cemetery, there are also the graves of Polish citizens who died in Vaihingen between 1946 and 1947, and one grave of a Polish citizen who was killed in an air raid in 1944.
The victims’ graves are marked by clinker bricks with the victims’ personal data on them, laid along the alley in the north-eastern part of the cemetery. There is also a metal memorial plaque with the following inscription: ‘Here lie prisoners of the Vaihingen Enz concentration camp who died, as a result of that imprisonment, after the camp’s liberation by the French army in 1945.’
The graves are well maintained and the state of preservation of the memorials is good.
Cemetery address: Vaihingen an der Enz, Baden-Württemberg
Steinbeisstraße
71665 Vaihingen an der Enz
GPS: 48.937691,8.956711
Cemetery administration: Zentralee Friedhofsverwaltung Vaihingen an der Enz,
www.vaihingen.de/rathaus-service/buergerservice/friedhoefe,
Friedrich-Kraut-Str. 40, 71665 Vaihingen an der Enz,
