Cemetery

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

The rather large plot is located on the federal road 12 Pocking-Simbach about 4 km southwest of Pocking.Steps and a ramp in the middle lead down to a large rectangle surrounded by a high stone wall. There are several benches at the memorial. The inscription in the center of the monument reads: "To the victims of National Socialist tyranny 1933-1945", the one on either side: "The 95 concentration camp prisoners formerly buried here now rest in the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Cemetery of Honor".

The Jewish cemetery is located in the center of Pfaffenhausen, not far from the church, on a gently north-facing slope. He has a size of over 12000 square meters and was created around 1580. Further use was prohibited in July 1938.

Jews are mentioned in Pegnitz in 1455 and in the 16th and 17th centuries several times in documents. Known were the so-called "Judengrüber" in the plan no. 1535a on the slope to the right of the road leading from Pegnitz to the district of Rosenhof; the two gravestones, which, however, for some time can no longer be found.

In Passau existed perhaps already at the end of the 1st millennium a Jewish community, which is mentioned documentarily however only 1204 and then again and again, so e.g. 1210, 1244 or 1260. They possibly buried their deceased in Regensburg. This is indicated by a document of 1311, according to which the Counts of Hals, keeper of Vilshofen, offered to escort the Passau Jews to Straubing for a fee of half a Passau penny and one pound of pepper for each dead person or one pound of pepper for each living person.