Jammertal' memorial and cemetery / Salzgitter-Lebenstedt

Cemetery for forced laborers, prisoners of war and concentration camp prisoners of the Reichswerke ‚Hermann Göring‘ who perished under inhumane working and living conditions.

The construction of a central ‚Ausländerfriedhof‘ began in the early summer of 1943. The Reichswerke „Hermann-Göring“ made the land with the old field name 'Jammertal' available for this purpose. The area was a small hill in the otherwise flat landscape, as the unusable earth accumulated during the construction work of the Reichswerke ‚Hermann Göring‘ had been dumped there.

Aliens were still buried there until 1950/51, mostly the deceased from DP camps. In total, around 4000 people were buried in this cemetery. In 1948, individual name plaques were placed on the graves of 185 known Jewish victims from the last days before the liberation. Other archives state that 348 people of Jewish faith were buried in the Jammertal cemetery.