Dahlenburg, Neuer Ev.- luth. Friedhof

According to the information available to us, a total of 23 dead from both world wars and the National Socialist tyranny rest in the "New Cemetery" of the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Dahlenburg. Among them are 15 children of Eastern European forced laborers who died of illness, starvation and deliberate neglect in the "Foreign Children's Nursing Home" in Gienau. In detail: - A closed grave complex with individual graves for seven German soldiers - killed during the final battles in the second half of April 1945 - on the main path to the left in front of the chapel; - Another grave complex with horizontal gravestones at the back of the cemetery for three foreign soldiers who died as prisoners of war: a Belgian, a Frenchman and a Soviet soldier (WW1 and WW2). - directly behind this is a memorial stone with a plaque for the children of forced laborers who died in Gienau and were buried here. Photos: Volker Fleig 2014