Bad Gandersheim, Salzbergfriedhof

According to the information available to us, a total of 68 victims of National Socialist tyranny rest in the Salzberg cemetery. In detail: - 40 prisoners of various nationalities from the Brunshausen subcamp, who were classified by the SS as sick and unfit to march on April 4, 1945, the day the subcamp was evacuated, were shot and initially buried in the forest near Clus. They were reburied in a collective grave at the Salzberg cemetery in June 1945. Their names are known and can be seen by visitors on the memorial stone. 20 other forced laborers from Poland and the former Soviet Union, including 15 infants and small children of Polish and Soviet forced laborers, were also buried here in other collective graves according to the list of graves. Most of them also died in the Brunshausen camp in 1944/45 before the evacuation. To this day, no memorial stone commemorates their fate, although the names of most of those buried here are also known. 4 individual graves of Polish forced laborers are located slightly below by a hedge. Their names and dates are inscribed on small grave steles. They died as early as 1942. - In the cemetery area there are 4 further individual graves of 1 German Landesschützen, 1 Hungarian and 2 Polish citizens. Photos: Volker Fleig 2013