The cemetery of the NKVD special hospital in Kamyshkov was established on 7.08.1943. Until 20.09.1944 the deceased prisoners were buried in mass graves, after this date - in individual graves. All the deceased were meticulously registered with their personalities, nationality, year of birth, date and cause of death and location of the grave. The cemetery was closed down with the liquidation of the hospital on 4.05.1948. At that time, the cemetery was fenced off with barbed wire and all graves were marked with grave and plot numbers. In 1963, the cemetery was extensively renovated. During these works, a new wooden fence was erected, the graves were enclosed with concrete borders on which the grave number was engraved, and covered crosses with name plates were placed on some of them.

The cemetery buried 1,511 people (1,274 in individual graves and 237 in mass graves) including 1,024 Germans, 133 Romanians, 99 Hungarians, 79 Italians, 58 Austrians, 50 Moldovans, 15 Czechs, 15 French, 14 Poles, 9 Yugoslavs, 6 Ukrainians, 4 Russians, 1 Dutch, 1 Luxembourger, 1 Norwegian, 1 Swede, and 1 Latvian.

The cemetery is located on the edge of the forest in the area of the 83rd quarter of the Nowki forest district, approximately 800 m from the north-western The cemetery is situated approximately 800 m from the north-western edge of the town of Kamieszkowo and 100 m west of the Kamieszkowo-Maszkowo road. It occupies a rectangular site with an area of 0.9 ha and dimensions of 138 x 66 m. The cemetery area is divided into 51 plots with 25 graves each (in plot no. 51 - 24 graves). In addition, there are 37 mass graves in the south-eastern corner of the cemetery. In the 1960s the cemetery was fenced with a wooden fence and all graves had concrete borders and covered crosses with name plates.