Memorial Perished Forced Labourers Pulgar

This memorial site on the site of the former Pulgar cemetery contains the collective graves of-and various plaques and monuments commemorating-the Russian, Dutch and Italian forced labourers, among others, who died here during World War II.

Several forced labour camps had been located in this area since the beginning of the war to provide labour for the chemical industry based here. Conditions in the factories and in these so-called "Arbeitserziehungslager" were inhuman and many prisoners died as a result of malnutrition, ill-treatment, diphtheria and typhoid.

The deceased from the camps "Lippendorf De Kippe" or "Höhensonne" and "Peres Alpenrose" were buried in Pulgar cemetery. Many of the victims of the raids around Merwede, Beverwijk, Velsen-Noord and Groningen also ended up in these camps.

Due to industrial expansion, the village of Pulgar disappeared but the site of the cemetery next to the factory entrance was left untouched and redesigned as a memorial complex.

On 2 bronze plaques are the names of over 100 Dutchmen who perished in these camps.

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