Flossenbürg (memorial)
Historical background
See: Flossenbürg (camp)
Description of commemoration
In the so-called Valley of Death, near the Pyramid of the Ashes, we can find an unusual memorial. Made of smooth, polished, black granite, it resembles a rounded top of an aeroplane wing stuck in the ground (prisoners of the camp worked for the Messerschmitt factory). Just under the wing, there is an inverted black triangle (a symbol given to prisoners qualified as Gypsies / Roma / Sinti) made of the same type of stone.
The memorial was unveiled on the 71st anniversary of the liberation of the camp.
Inscriptions
Text in German:
ZUM GEDENKEN AN DIE / SINTI UND ROMA, / DIE IN KONZENTRATIONSLAGER / FLOSSENBÜRG, / SEINEN AUSSENLAGERN / UND AUF DEN TODESMÄRSCHEN / DEM NATIONALSOZIALISTISCHEN / VÖLKERMORD ZUM OPFER FIELEN.
Translation:
’In memory of / the Sinti and Roma, / victims of genocide / at the Flossenbürg concentration camp, / and its subcamps / as well as those who died during the March of Death’
Date of the unveiling
2016
Dać zdjęcie z odsłonięcia. A photo from the unveiling ceremony. Source: https://www.oberpfalzecho.de/2016/04/gedenkakt-71-jahrestag-der-befreiung-des-kz-flossenbuerg/
Author
Alfred Kainz
Address
The Valley of Death, KL Flossenbürg Museum
Location
49°44’01.7″N 12°21’30.9″E
49.733806, 12.358583
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