IGLING incorp. HOLZHAUSEN, Oberbay: 86859 Bavaria, Lower Franconia (Gerz, Peters).
DISTRICT: Landsberg a. Lech.
LOCATION OF CEMETERY: On Magnusstrasse, past the Magnus-Heim and across a small bridge.
IN USE: This is a post WW2 concentration camp cemetery.
NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 27 - all along the cemetery wall.
DOCUMENTATION:
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Numerous individual gravestone photographs and general cemetery views in Alemannia Judaica.
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Jüdische Friedhöfe in Bayern publ. Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst, Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte - see KZ-Friedhöfe - Holzhausen.
PUBLICATIONS:
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Israel Schwierz: Steinerne Zeugnisse jüdischen Lebens in Bayern - refer to Sources below.
NOTES:
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This cemetery was used between 1945 and 1948 mostly as a mass grave for Jewish survivors from the Kaufering concentration camp, who were originally housed in a nearby institution for the physically handicapped, today known as the Magnus-Heim. Camp survivors who died in the institution were buried here. Apart from the 27 gravestones along the wall, 94 more Jewish victims of the Nazi incarceration were also buried here in a mass grave. There is a large memorial stone in the cemetery in honour of these Jewish victims of the Nazi terror.
SOURCE: Alemannia Judaica and Schwierz, page 311 (Schwierz LBI).
(Researched and translated from German December 2009)