Memorial Mass Grave Camp Nordfeld

On 10 April 1945, a final train transport of Jewish prisoners left Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. In fourteen days the train traveled first in the direction of Hamburg and then straight through devastated Berlin to finally strand near the village of Tröbitz. Along the way and in the first weeks after arrival, of the 2,500 people on board, about 500 would die, many due to typhus.

A day after the capture of Tröbitz by the Red Army on 23 April 1945, the evacuees were housed in the village and in Camp Nordfeld, a former POW camp, where the Red Army had set up a primitive hospital for some of the liberated prisoners. In all, more than 300 seriously ill people from the train were housed here. 134 patients would not survive. The bodies were buried in a mass grave dug at the edge of the camp. The bodies were later reburied in the mass grave near the church in Tröbitz. A memorial stone stands at the site of the mass grave today.

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Koos Winkelman
• PRENGER, K., Meer dan alleen Auschwitz, Just Publishers, 2021.