Concentration camp cemetery Stoffersberg gravel pit
The Kaufering II and Kaufering X subcamps were close to the “Weingut II” and “Diana II” bunker construction sites, where the Jewish concentration camp prisoners had to undertake forced labour.
Suffering the dreadful working and living conditions, many prisoners died within a few months. An estimate made by the Landsberg District Administration Office in 1949 assumes approximately 1,500 dead in the Kaufering II camp and approximately 1,200 dead in the Kaufering XI camp.
The dead from both camps were buried in Stoffersberg at two locations: in a gravel pit to the south-west and a wood to the north of the Kaufering II camp area. According to the estimate of 1949, approximately 2,000 Jewish victims are interred in the Stoffersberg gravel pit concentration camp cemetery. Exactly how many people are buried here is not known.
The 1,675 square metre concentration camp cemetery consists of nine burial grounds and is surrounded by a concrete wall. A gravel path leads to the central memorial. It is made of Flossenbürg granite and bears the inscription:
THROUGH DEATH
TO LIFE!
HERE LIE
CONCENTRATION CAMP VICTIMS