Hamburg Fischbek

Burial ground for WWII victims
Burial ground for WWII victims

On the memorial stone there is an inscription in German:

 

FAR FROM THEIR HOMELAND

LIE 26 VICTIMS

OF THE WAR AND DESPOTISM

[translated from Polish]

 

The 26 names engraved on the memorial stone and on the tombstones at the cemetery include four Polish-sounding names (original spelling preserved):

 

JOHANN RUTKOWSKI * 2.12.1903 † 18.3.1945

JOSEF SZYMANNSKY * 20.12.1923 † 24.2.1945

WŁADYSŁAW BOJDEK illegible, date of death probably 1950

ALEKSANDER CHEPLA * 20.8.1914 † 4.5.1945