Concentration grave sites in the municipal cemetery in the town of Bad Wörishofen

In November 1944, the first 1172 Jewish prisoners in the Kaufering VI subcamp were transferred to Türkheim. The dead from the camp were buried in mass graves. Located nearby.

At the end of April 1945, the SS evacuated the majority of the concentration camp prisoners via Landsberg in the direction of the Dachau concentration camp.

KZ-Grabstätte auf dem KZ-Friedhof Wörishofen.

The concentration camp burial ground is located in the Bad Wörishofen municipal cemetery behind the mortuary, in the third row to the right of the main path (Block XIV, Grave No. 493-499). Source: Anton J. Brandl

After the liberation of the Kaufering VI subcamp by American soldiers, the dead were exhumed and placed in the newly created concentration camp cemetery in Türkheim to the north of the former camp area. The concentration camp prisoners liberated from there went to the Sonnenhof displaced persons hospital in Bad Wörishofen. Despite treatment for the effects of their imprisonment, 34 men and women died in the hospital and, on the initiative of the Jewish Committee of Bad Wörishofen, they were buried in the communal cemetery in Wörishofen. The names of 32 of them are known.

Im DP-Hospital Sonnenhof in Bad Wörishofen verstorbene ehemalige KZ-Häftlinge wurden auf dem Friedhof bestattet.

The liberated concentration camp prisoners, who died in the Sonnenhof DP hospital in Bad Wörishofen, were buried in the cemetery. Source: Stiftung Bayerische Gedenkstätten

For this purpose, a row of seven planted graves were laid out behind the mortuary in the municipal cemetery. The rectangular burial ground is bordered by concrete posts with iron chains linking them. A higher gravestone in granite stands in the middle of the burial ground. On one face there is a Hebrew inscription:

HERE LIE THE VICTIMS
OF THE BLOODY NAZI REGIME
HONOUR THEIR MEMORY!
THE JEWISH COMMITTEE
BAD WÖRISHOFEN
MAY 1945