Closed concentration camp cemeteries

In addition to the concentration camp cemeteries that still exist, eight former concentration grave sites are known about in the Landsberg area. These involve smaller grave sites and individual graves that still existed into the 1960’s. After exhumation by international search organisations, these were subsequently closed.

1. Egling: On 15 April 1945, concentration camp prisoners passed through the vicinity of Egling on a death march from Augsburg to the Dachau concentration camp. According to the mayor at the time, three shots had been heard in the distance. Later a grave was discovered at the location. In the following years, the local authority looked after the grave. During the exhumation in June 1956, two bodies were found and interred in the Waldfriedhof cemetery in Dachau.

A photograph of the concentration camp grave in Egling. Source: Stiftung Bayerische Gedenkstätten

2. Holzhausen refugee cemetery: To the east of the village there were four linear graves that were marked with simple wooden crosses. The six Jewish victims buried in them were removed to the Dachau Waldfriedhof cemetery in 1956. They died in the Magnusheim hospital following their liberation.

A photograph of the concentration camp burial site in the Holzhausen refugee cemetery from 1954. Source: Stiftung Bayerische Gedenkstätten

3. Holzhausen village cemetery: In 1960, seven Jewish victims were exhumed and removed to the Dachau Waldfriedhof cemetery. They died in the Magnusheim hospital following their liberation.

A photograph of the burial ground in the Holzhausen village cemetery from 1954. Source: Stiftung Bayerische Gedenkstätten

4. Landsberg am Lech municipal cemetery: In the cemetery there is a total of 38 individual graves of Jewish victims. They died in Landsberg in the weeks following their liberation. The majority of them could be identified by name. They were removed in 1955 to the Dachau Waldfriedhof cemetery.

5. Landsberg am Lech, Siemensstrasse: On what today is Siemensstrasse in the Lechwiesen South industrial estate there was a concentration camp cemetery immediately northwest of the former Kaufering I sub-camp. In the three exhumations in 1960 and 1961, eleven unidentified concentration camp dead were found and removed to the Dachau Waldfriedhof cemetery.

A photograph of the concentration camp cemetery in the present Siemensstrasse in Landsberg am Lech. Source: Stiftung Bayerische Gedenkstätten

6. Ramsach: At the end of April 1945 a death march passed through Ramsach. In a gravel pit lying to the south of the village, the remains of two concentration camp prisoners were subsequently discovered. Both victims were buried together in an individual grave in the village cemetery. The grave was relaid by the 1950’s.

7. Stoffersberg Süd: South of the Stoffersberg Wood concentration camp cemetery that exists today, there was a further concentration camp cemetery in the immediate vicinity of the former Kaufering II sub-camp. During excavations by an international search organisation in 1956, no concentration camp victims could be found. The concentration camp cemetery was then closed.

Photograph of the Stoffersberg Süd concentration camp cemetery. Source: Stiftung Bayerische Gedenkstätten

8. Stoffersberg individual grave: In documentation held by the Landsberg district administrative office and the Bavarian Palace Department (Schlösserverwaltung) mentions an individual grave of a concentration camp victim on the Landsberg to Buchloe road, approximately five kilometres west of Landsberg in the immediate vicinity of the Stoffersberg concentration camp cemetery gravel pit. The grave location is no longer known.