War Memorial Dresden

Heidefriedhof Cemetery in Dresden contains the general war memorial of Dresden. It is a round square surrounded by 14 columns.

Seven columns bear the following names of cities, which suffered heavy during the Second World War:
Coventry
Dresden
Leningrad
Lidice
Oradour
Rotterdam
Warschau

The other seven columns, on the other side of the square, bear names of concentration camps:
Auschwitz
Bergen-Belsen
Buchenwald
Dachau
Ravensbrück
Sachsenhausen
Theresienstadt

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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries
• Photos: Fedor de Vries