More than 1,370 people of various nationalities who were murdered between 1935 and 1945, primarily victims of various concentration camps and the Nazi euthanasia programme, are buried in the U1/U2 section of the Altglienicke cemetery in Berlin. Buried here are 448 urns with the ashes of Poles - victims of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp who were murdered between 1940 and 1942, among them 18 Polish clergy. Poles make up the second largest group of victims in this cemetery after Germans.
Victims of bombing raids between 1944 and 1945 are also buried here, and in 1952 the urns of 80 unnamed victims of executions carried out in Plötzensee prison, whose bodies were used by the Anatomy Institute of the Berlin Charité clinic, were also deposited here.
For years, those resting in the quarters remained unremembered. Klaus Leutner, who also compiled the data of those buried, initiated the construction of the memorial. In 2021, a memorial with their names and an information board on the history of the quarters was made with funds from the Berlin Senate.
Personal details of the victims together with a description of the cemetery are available on the website of the project "Polish memorials and war graves in Germany" carried out by the "Polish-German Reconciliation" Foundation within the framework of the task co-financed by the Minister's Programme "Sites of National Remembrance Abroad": https://polskiegroby.pl/cmentarz.php?jez=pl&cmentarzok=34&miejsceok=349&landok=3.