Macikai

Silute (Heydekrug) was the location of the central administration of NKVD camp no.
7057. Several POW camps were administered from this location.
One of these camps was located in the village of Macikai (Matzicken), today a district of Silute (Heydekrug)
of Silute (Heydekrug). The prisoners of war who perished here were buried
buried in mass graves not far from the camp. The number of dead can no longer be
can no longer be determined.

In 2001, the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture was commissioned by the Volksbund to publish a
Report on the situation of German prisoner of war cemeteries in the former
Memel region with the towns of Silute and Klaipeda (Memel). After
On-site investigations and examination of the archive documents, the conclusion was reached
that only the cemetery in Macikai has been preserved. Besides German
Prisoners of war, Russian prisoners of war and prisoners of war from other
Nations (until 1945) and Lithuanian civilian internees (from around 1948) were also buried in Macikai.

In 1991, on the initiative of the municipality of Macikai, the entire area was enclosed with
enclosed with a fence. In May 2003, a German army group from the
From the naval engineering school in Parow cleaned the German cemetery and sowed it with grass
sown with grass. A wooden high cross was erected at a central point.
Groups of crosses mark the graves.