Lager VII Esterwegen

Esterwegen – Bockhorst, Am Küstenkanal, Kriegsgräberstätte (info: Volksbund)

The cemetery, now known as the Esterwegen burial site, has been renamed several times. The graves originally known as the "Börgermoor camp cemetery" or as "Devil's Mountain" by the guards and prisoners were used to bury the dead of the Börgermoor, Esterwegen and Neusustrum concentration camps, as well as all the penal camps in Emsland until 1945, in individual graves. At least two Soviet prisoners of war who died in the Klostermoor work detail are also buried here.  The list of graves has been lost since shortly after the end of the war, so the graves are nameless. However, since deaths were registered in the camps and at the registry offices, among other places, many of the names of those buried here can be identified.  In the 1950s, the concentration camp dead were exhumed and reburied in the cemetery near the Versen camp, as were the "Night and Fog" prisoners who were transferred to their home countries.

The wooden and later stone crosses originally placed on the individual graves were no longer used when the cemetery was redesigned in 1972/73. In 1981, the state of Lower Saxony erected an open memorial hall in the middle of the cemetery with the names of the 15 Emsland camps and an information board.  In 1985, the Fédération des Victimes du Nazisme, Enrôlées de force Luxembourg inaugurated a memorial stone with a plaque in the entrance area of ​​the cemetery in memory of the Luxembourg conscripts imprisoned in the Emsland camps.