Adjacent
to what is now the Bautzen Penitentiary is the hill called "Karnickelberg", or
"Rabbit Hill", where many of those who died in the Soviet special camp were buried. Here the City of Bautzen, with the aid of national
and state funds and in cooperation with the former inmates' association and the
German War Graves Commission (Volksbund German Kriegsgräberfürsorge e. V.), has
established a cemetery for the victims of Communist dictatorship who died in the
Bautzen prisons. From 1992 to 1994, some of the remains of those who had died in
the Soviet camp and been
buried in unmarked graves were recovered under difficult conditions and brought
to the site. The remains of 248 victims now rest in the new cemetery in ten rows
of graves. The site also
commemorates the dead who can no longer be located.
A
memorial chapel adjacent to the cemetery was dedicated in September, 2000.
