Concentration camp cemetery Kaufering North
Between 1948 and 1950, on the orders of the American military authorities, the concentration camp cemeteries of Kaufering North and Kaufering South were laid out. In them are deceased Jewish prisoners from the Kaufering III and IV subcamps.
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.
In April 1973, during construction work to the south, both of the concentration camp cemeteries, a further 48 skeletal concentration camp prisoners were discovered. The bodies were buried in the Kaufering North concentration camp cemetery. Several memorial plaques, erected by relatives, serve the memory of the concentration camp prisoners who died.
The similarly landscaped Kaufering North cemetery has three concrete block burial grounds, with a gravel path leading to the central memorial. It is made of Flossenbürg granite and is like a column. It has the following words engraved:
THE STONE CRIES FROM THE WALL
THIS MEMORIAL IS TESTAMENT
TO THOSE WHO DIED OF THIRST AND HUNGER,
THE MARTYRS AND THE HOLY, WHOSE SOULS HAVE NOW ESCAPED
THE BRUTAL OPPRESSION
IN THE CAMP THEY OVERCAME THE ACCURSED AND VILLAINOUS,
WHOSE NAMES SHOULD BE ERASED.
IN THE YEARS 704, 705 (=1944/45)
MAY THEIR SOULS BE RAISED TO ETERNAL LIFE!
