Paderborn Sennelager

War cemetery in Paderborn-Sennelager
War cemetery in Paderborn-Sennelager

At the cemetery, there are a total of 663 graves, including 395 graves with the remains of the First World War victims. Only two Serbian prisoners of war are known by name. Among the 268 graves of prisoners of war and forced laborers from the Second World War, the largest part of them are 208 Polish graves. In addition, 14 citizens of Yugoslavia, 10 Belgians, 6 Hungarians, 5 Croats, 3 Dutchmen, 3 Czechs, 3 Romanians, 3 Latvians, 2 Serbs, 2 Slovaks, 2 Lithuanians, 2 Frenchmen, 1 Ukrainian, 1 Chinese, 1 Indian and 2 people of unknown nationality were buried at the cemetery. 

The cemetery became the place of final rest for a soldier of General Maczek's 1st Polish Armoured Division, who died in an English military hospital in Salzkotten near Paderborn.

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  • Impressions of the war cemetery

  • Impressions of the war cemetery

  • Impressions of the war cemetery

  • Impressions of the war cemetery

  • Impressions of the war cemetery

  • Impressions of the war cemetery

  • Impressions of the war cemetery

  • Impressions of the war cemetery

    Impressions of the war cemetery