Oldenburg Ohmstede Cemetery

Oldenburg - Ohmstede, Ev.- luth. Friedhof (info: Volksbund)

At the western end of the cemetery, 381 war victims.  The Russian Orthodox wooden cross is visible from afar.

Memorial plaques in German and Cyrillic script commemorate the 324 Eastern European forced laborers from the "Rennplatzstrasse transit camp" buried in a mass grave. The high proportion of children is striking. 120 children and 38 names "stillborn".

The nationality of most is "Russian". Five "Poles", two "Belgians", one "Dutch". All are marked as "foreign workers", with the exception of a Soviet officer and a woman named "Kuhn" buried by a master carpenter from Oldenburg.

 

Oldenburg Ohmstede Ev Luth Friedhof
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