KZ-Transport 1945 Memorial

Coming from the Buchenwald concentration camp, a train with 54 freight cars[1] arrived at Nammering station on 19 April 1945 after a twelve-day journey.

Here in Nammering, the 270 prisoners who had already died during the transport were burnt in a quarry and the other 524 murdered were buried in a swamp meadow (Totenwiese).

In 1958 three cemeteries were exhumed, brought to Flossenbürg and dissolved, 171 murdered people still lie in Eging and in Fürstenstein 39 dead are still buried.

On 24 April 2005, on the 60th anniversary of the murder of 794 prisoners, a commemoration ceremony was held at the described railway site in Nammering in the presence of survivors of the evacuation train, members of the German Bundestag, the Bavarian Landtag, the Bavarian State Government, representatives of the churches and local politics, and the population for the "greatest [...] terrible war crime in Lower Bavaria".

At a commemoration ceremony on 19 April 2015, on the 70th anniversary of the transport, IG Metall also erected another memorial stone for the murdered trade union members of the train.