Monument Mass Grave Railroad Pole 101,6

Langennaundorf

Germany Brandenburg Langennaundorf

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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 occupants, about 500 would die, many due to typhus.

On 20 April , the train passed Tröbitz station in the direction of Falkenberg. A little less than 10 kilometers further on, it came to a halt near the village of Langennaundorf, at railroad pole 101,6. The journey could not be continued because the bridge over the small river Schwarze Elster had been blown up. Sixteen people from the train were buried at this spot where the train waited to be pulled back to Tröbitz. In 1989 a memorial stone was placed here in their memory.

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