Oberlangen

Monument at the cemetery in Oberlangen
Monument at the cemetery in Oberlangen

OBERLANGEN CEMETERY
HERE REST RUSSIAN PRISONERS OF WAR. THE NAMES OF 62 PEOPLE BURIED IN INDIVIDUAL GRAVES ARE KNOWN.

THE NAMES OF 2000-4000 PEOPLE BURIED IN MASS GRAVES

AND 2 IN INDIVIDUAL GRAVES ARE UNKNOWN.

MOST OF THE PRISONERS DIED BECAUSE OF

MALNUTRITION AND EPIDEMICS.

FURTHER INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED FROM THE MUNICIPALITY OF LATHEN.

[translated from Polish]

 

According to information obtained from Czesław Szewczyk, a former soldier of the 1st Polish Armoured Division, four soldiers of the division died in the area of the camp - three were buried at this cemetery and the fourth was buried at the military war cemetery in Groningen (the Netherlands):

 

KLANK ZBIGNIEW Cpl.

* 16.6.1921 Białystok

† 27.7.1945 Oberlangen

R-C. Serv. Number 1921/

ID No. 221865/XB

 

NEUMAN EUGENIA volunteer

* 20.1.1922 Warsaw

† 13.4.1945

 

NAPIERALSKI JAN Lance Corporal Rifles

2nd Anti-Tank

* 23.6.1922

† 13.4.1945, burial Map. 6473

R-C. Serv. Number 1922/9[69/I-60253

 

MIARKA KAZIMIERZ Lance Corporal Rifles

2nd Anti-Tank

* 19.11.1916 Łódź

† 13.4.1945 Oberlangen

Buried in Groningen, the Netherlands