In the Groß Fullen war cemetery near Meppen in Lower Saxony there is a section of about 145 graves of Polish citizens - children, women and men who died in Haren, Germany, called Maczków at that time, in the post-war years (1945-1948). In 1958, the graves of the Polish residents of Maczków were moved to this location from the cemetery in Haren. After the liberation of Emsland in 1945 by the Allied Forces, which included the Polish 1st Armoured Division under the command of General Stanisław Maczek, there were around 40,000 foreigners in the area known as Displaced Persons (DPs, dipisi). Most of them were Polish citizens - liberated prisoners of concentration and prisoner-of-war camps, as well as forced labourers. In mid-May 1945, the Allied authorities entrusted Polish soldiers from the 1st Armoured Division and the 1st Independent Parachute Brigade with occupation duty in the districts of Aschendorf, Meppen and Lingen, as well as the counties of Bentheim, Bensbrück and Cloppenburg, and with the care of the dipis in the area. Polish troops remained in Emsland until October 1947. On the orders of the British occupation authorities, the former residents of Haren left the town. Its name was changed to Maczków and Polish citizens - recent victims of Nazism - were settled there. In June 1945, around 5,000 Poles lived in the town. In Maczków, which became the centre of the Polish enclave in Emsland, Polish administration and education were organised. Social, cultural and religious life developed exuberantly. 289 weddings were celebrated, the births of 497 children were registered and 101 funerals were recorded in the local cemetery. Thousands of Poles passed through the town, awaiting transport to Poland or emigration to other countries. The last Polish family left Maczków in August 1948. In 2022. The Polish-German Reconciliation Foundation carried out a revitalisation of the quarter: the existing commemoration, erected there by the German side in the post-war period, was cleaned and restored. In addition, an obelisk with the names of all those buried was placed by the sculptor Marek Moderau. More information about the plot is available on the website of the project "Polish memorials and war graves in Germany" www.polskiegroby.pl realised by the "Polish-German Reconciliation" Foundation within the framework of co-financing from the programme of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage "Places of National Remembrance Abroad". Compiled based on information by the "Polish-German Reconciliation" Foundation