Concentration camp cemetery Kaufering South

The names of the concentration camp prisoners, who died and are buried in the Kaufering North and Kaufering South concentration camp cemeteries, are not known. They are Jewish victims from the Kaufering III and IV subcamps.

The concentration camp cemetery is located to the north of the car park at 18 Lechstaustufe in the Hurlacher Heide. Source: Stiftung Bayerische Gedenkstätten / Rainer Viertlböck

On the orders of the American military authorities, concentration camp cemeteries were laid out shortly after the end of the war. Later, the Bavarian State Compensation Office and the Landsberg am Lech District Administration Office took on the designing of them.

The concentration camp cemetery was completed in 1950. Source: Stiftung Bayerische Gedenkstätten

How many victims are buried in both of the concentration camp cemeteries is not known. A member of the War Crimes Investigation Team told the Dachau process that two mass graves with approximately 2,000 to 2,500 bodies had been discovered at the site.

A memorial stone of Flossenbürg granite opposite the entrance portal bears the Hebrew inscription:

THROUGH DARKNESS
AND GLOOM
YOUR WERE LED
TO THE LORD GOD
HERE LIE
AN UNKNOWN NUMBER
OF VICTIMS OF
THE CONCENTRATION CAMP
KAUFERING