Dusseldorf honored memory of Soviet citizens who died in concentration camps

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Russian compatriots from Dusseldorf paid tribute to the memory of prisoners of Nazi concentration camps. Members of the Memory public organization laid flowers at the memorial, erected on the site of the mass grave, in which over 1,500 prisoners of war are buried. The event was timed to coincide with the International Day for the Liberation of Concentration Camp Prisoners, the Russkoe Pole newspaper reports.

During the Second World War, a military infirmary was located in the urban area of ​​Ludenberg, in which Red Army soldiers died - soldiers from the battlefield and prisoners from a local concentration camp. They were buried in a mass grave.

The Memory organization conducts search activities to establish the names of those buried in the mass grave and landscapes the area around the monument. In April, red tulips were planted, which will bloom and decorate the Victory Day monument. According to the chairman of the organization, Alexander Rossolai, there are plans to plant a birch grove and build an Orthodox chapel.

Russkiy Mir