Monument Mass Grave at Railroad Pole 106,7

Tröbitz

Germany Brandenburg Tröbitz

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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 April 20, 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. The wagons were driven back to Tröbitz and came to a halt at railroad pole 106,7. The total delay, before the train was liberated on 23 April, was three days. During the time the train stopped at pole 106.7, 28 prisoners who died were buried in a mass grave here.

A monument along the rail line marks the mass grave.

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