Jewish War Graves Schilda

On 10 April 1945, a final train transport of Jewish prisoners left Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. In fourteen days the train travelled 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.

Eleven victims were buried in the Schilda cemetery near Tröbitz. In 1951, six Dutchmen and one Briton were reburied in their homeland. The four remaining graves belong to two Hungarian Jewish women, a Hungarian Jewish man and a stateless Jewish woman. Their names are: Hedwig Aschner, Gisela Deutsch, Seron Gros and Kornelia Heumann.

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Source

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