European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 6, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                G e r Mary a. A from a living hell holocaust victims find peace in Small cemetery near Augsburg by Ron Jensen Niernberg Bureau. About 20 Miles South of Augsburg just off Highway. 17, part of Germany s romantic Road is a very unromantic place a a Cem Etsity for an unknown number of holocaust victims v they died at the concentration Camp in nearby Kaefring one of the subsidiary Camps of the larger and More infamous facility at Dachau 30 Miles to the East. There Are few gravestones Here. Instead most of the dead lie in mass Graves marked Only by Concrete Borders nearly covered by the debris of Many autumns. A almost All of the few individual markers Bear hebrew writing. Decipherable a however Are the dates of death. Most died Early in 1945, Mere weeks before the Camps were liberated. Cravel paths direct a visitor throughout silent markers arc a shaded by Trees at a the cemetery for a holocaust victims a along Germany s romantic Road above. A nature photographer spots a wildflower near some of the few stones that Mark the Graves right. The Small cemetery enclosed by a Low Concrete is 11. Trees of Many varieties and Small shrubs Shade the area. A Stone Marker bears an inscription in German. The Star of David guides these victims to god it says. Visitors do come Here. That is Clear from the Small stones that sit atop a few of the grave markers a jewish tradition. The concentration Camp at Kaefring was one of the Anonymous and forgotten dozens that imprisoned those unfortunate enough to have incurred the Wrath of a truly evil Empire. One description of it in a Cerman newspaper provides a glimpse inside its particular terror. It is testimony from a . Soldier we o entered the Camp on april 30,1945. More than 200 charred bodies Lay inside the Gate. Open pits held a huge number of bodies piled layer upon layer. Quot All life in the Camp had been extinguished. The living quarters of the prisoners were holes in the Earth with a roof Over them. One had to pass through a Trench to enter . The contents were More than primitive. There were no Beds in the living quarters. On the floor there were Wood shavings and a few dirty blankets Quot he said. Three toilet facilities were available for 3,000 prisoners. There were no washing facilities no warm water no sheets towels or  a. What few clothes they wore came from victims of the Gas Chambers at Auschwitz the death Camp in Poland. Starvation claimed victims every Day. The cemetery is near Kaefring. A sign on the Highway Points toward the Quot Khz Friedhof Quot East of the Road. There is no evidence in the cemetery of the hell endured by these countless and nameless. Instead there is Only a tranquil loneliness a peace that comes Only in a death. Quot  a is amps photos by Ron Jensen