The war cemetery in Jaunitzbachtal, a district of the town of Freistadt in Upper Austria, was established during the First World War. 388 Italian and Russian soldiers were buried there. During the Second World War, its second part was established. Between 1965 and 1968, burials from war graves scattered throughout Upper Austria were transferred here, including 105 Poles and Polish citizens of other nationalities. These were primarily Polish forced labourers employed at the Hermann Göring Werke works who had died during the Second World War in Linz, including as a result of bombing raids.

The ceremonial opening of the necropolis took place in 1972. A total of 2,352 soldiers and civilian war victims from 14 nationalities are buried in this part of the cemetery. The identity of some of them is unknown. The cemetery is divided into 4 plots, two of which are mainly military, the other two civilian. Six people are buried in each grave and their details are engraved on stone crosses.

The enclosed names are taken from an archive cemetery list given to the Council for the Protection of Monuments to Struggle and Martyrdom in 1972 by the Linz branch of the Austrian Black Cross.

During the communist period, a plaque was placed in the cemetery with the inscription in Polish and German: "In tribute to the Poles murdered during the Nazi terror - honour their memory. Council for the Protection of the Memory of Struggle and Martyrdom of the Polish Nation of the Polish People's Republic" and a monument in the shape of a cross with swords, the so-called "sword-cross".

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