The Haus der Bayrischen Geschichte

Concentration camp graves are located in the municipal cemetery (Wackersdorfer Straße 7, 92421 Schwandorf). On April 17, 1945, concentration camp prisoners died during an air raid on Schwandorf. At the same time, a train carrying concentration camp prisoners from Flossenbürg to Dachau had broken down in Schwandorf. Several prisoners had already died in the wagons. Guards shot more prisoners when panic broke out during the attack. A total of 52 former concentration camp prisoners are buried in Schwandorf. The dead are buried in two collective graves.

The concentration camp cemetery is located south of the village on the railroad embankment in the direction of Landsberg a. Lech. The path is partially signposted.The cemetery was established over three mass graves with victims from Camp IV of the Landsberg/Kaufering subcamp complex. During the evacuation of the camp, the train transport with the prisoners was attacked by Allied low-flying planes on April 27, 1945. Prisoners fleeing under fire were murdered by the guards, some managed to escape, others succumbed to their injuries soon after.

The memorial site is located on the left side of the road from Hersbruck to Kainsbach in the forest, marked by an information stone about 2 km before the village. Here were burned in 1944/45 between 3000 and 4000 dead of the barracks camp Hersbruck. A low stone wall without a gate surrounds the memorial in the shape of an urn, around the center of which the following inscription can be read: "Was Haß blind zerstreut, Treue piously vereint - Errichtet 1950". Another inscription is on the pedestal: "To the victims of the Hersbruck concentration camp, cremated on this spot in 1944-45".

In Schornweisach there was a Jewish community from the middle of the 17th century until the 1880s. The cemetery established in 1712 was located in the village north of the church. He had to be abandoned between 1750 and 1850 at the instigation of the Christian authorities again; at funerals it had even come to physical confrontations. The exact location can no longer be determined today, traces are missing.

There are 31 concentration camp prisoners buried in a collective grave in the municipal cemetery. These are the victims of a death march of over 3000 mainly Jewish prisoners from Buchenwald concentration camp. The stone, erected after 1950, bears the inscription, "Here rest 28 unknown / concentration camp prisoners, died April 1945 / Death where is your sting? Hell where is your victory?". In 1984 a new gravestone was erected.

The memorial is located in the village cemetery .At the end of the cemetery opposite the main gate, turn left. Here is a rotunda with the memorial stone, on which is placed an urn. The upper inscription reads: "Burial place of 20 concentration camp victims and ashes of 360 concentration camp prisoners from the Flossenbürg camp + April 1945", the lower one on the pedestal reads: "Never again! We have not forgotten the horrors of the past 1945-1985. The youth of I. G. Bau Steine Erden".

There is a memorial in the local cemetery. One goes straight through the main gate until an extension of the cemetery becomes visible on the left by bending the wall by 90°. Follow this until you reach the memorial stone, which is integrated in the wall. It bears the inscription: "You as fair game hunted to death, Birgt graciously now Allmutter Erde! In memory of the 141 K.Z. prisoners buried here from the Flossenbürg camp + April 22, 1945 reburied in May 1957 to Flossenbürg."

The medieval cemetery was located outside the first city wall in the north of the old town. After the expulsion of the Jewish community in 1520, the gravestones were destroyed or used as building material. Only a few stones have survived.The cemetery on Wiesenstraße was established in 1890.

The concentration camp memorial is located in the Rettenbach district on the road from Wörth to Falkenstein. After about 11 km, a sign points to the memorial. In the dense forest there is a granite block with the inscription: "48 concentration camp prisoners were buried here in 1945. Transferred to Flossenbürg in 1957. Built in 1985 by the municipality of Rettenbach."

In the municipal cemetery on Friedhofsgasse, four concentration camp victims are buried in a collective grave