Close to today’s Holzhausen-Magnusheim concentration camp cemetery, since 1912, there had been the Magnusheim, a Catholic institute for mentally handicapped girls (today: Regens Wagner Holzhausen). From 1941 to 1945, it was largely misused by the German Wehrmacht as a reserve military hospital.

After their arrival in Landsberg, the American troops had the sick and wounded from the Landsberg/Kaufering subcamp complex transferred to the reserve military hospital. Thus it soon became a hospital for former concentration camp prisoners.

The former Jewish prisoners, who died in the Magnusheim were interred locally. According to grave lists from 1960, six of the former concentration camp prisoners were interred in the “refugees cemetery”, eleven in the village cemetery and ninety-four in today’s Holzhausen concentration camp cemetery.

In 1947, the Bavarian State Compensation Office began the designing of the concentration camp cemetery that was subsequently also used as a Jewish burial place. In 1954, the concentration cemetery was redesigned. The gravestones that were present were arranged along the surrounding wall. Those buried in the refugees and village cemetery were exhumed in 1956 and 1960 and reburied in the Memorial Cemetery in Dachau.