Hamburg-Ohlsdorf

It can be reached from Bramfelder Chaussee along Sorbusallee, which leads to the cemetery. On the southern side of Sorbusallee there are plots of war victims from 28 countries. Polish citizens who lost their lives during the Second World War and who were forced to stay in Hamburg and its surroundings were buried in multi-person graves.

It is the place of final rest of:

34 soldiers, prisoners of war,

417 prisoners of Neuengamme concentration camp, including 77 executed as a result of Nazi court sentences,

591 forced labourers.

At the entrance to the plot, there is a light stone plaque with an inscription in Polish and German:

POLSKA

KWATERA WOJENNA

1939–1945

POLISH

WAR PLOT

1939-1945

In the middle of the foreigners' plot, there is a sandstone rock with an inscription in German:

FAR FROM THEIR HOMELAND, THE DEAD FROM 28 COUNTRIES REST HERE

BELGIANS - GERMANS - GREEKS - HUNGARIANS - AUSTRIANS - SPANISH - ROMANIANS - CROATIANS - BULGARIANS - ESTONIANS - DUTCH - FINNS - CZECHS - RUSSIANS - CHINESE - ITALIANS - NORWEGIANS - LATVIANS - LITHUANIANS - FRENCH - POLES - TURKS - SERBS - DANES - PORTUGUESE - UKRAINIANS - SWISS - YUGOSLAVS AND UNKNOWN DECEASED.

[translated from Polish]

In the middle of this area there is also a stone wall with a bas-relief and an inscription in German:

OUR DUTY - RECONCILIATION AND PEACE

[translated from Polish]

On the 10th of November 1995, a ceremony of consecration of a new cross took place in the Polish plot under the patronage of the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Hamburg. Representatives of the consulate, Polish minority organizations, the Church, the cemetery management, the war grave care society, the German army, as well as the inhabitants of Hamburg and northern Germany attended it.

The cross was forged from light granite. A granite slab was placed in front of it, with an inscription carved in both languages:

POLAKOM – OFIAROM

NAZISTOWSKIEJ AGRESJI I WOJNY

1939–1945

DEN POLEN – DEN OPFERN

DER NAZIAGRESSION UND DES KRIEGES

[TO POLES – THE VICTIMS

OF NAZI AGGRESSION AND WAR]