At the entrance to the memorial site, which covers an area of approximately 100 x 100 m, there is a granite pillar with brief information about the memorial and a tourist information board on a metal stand. The foot of the mound is landscaped and planted with trees. The mound itself consists of a circular raised tumulus of piled earth approximately 20 x 30 m in plan. The wide concrete pavement leading to the mound ends with a staircase. The top of the mound is reinforced with quarry stone paving. At the very top there is a concreted area, in the centre of which stands a concrete column about 6 metres high with a sculpture of a crown of thorns.

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MOHYLA

TOTO PIETNÍ MÍSTO BYLO VYBUDOVÁNO
V ROCE 1948 JAKO POSLEDNÍ MÍSTO
ODPOČINKU 232 OBĚTÍ POCHODU SMRTI,
KTERÉ PROCHÁZELY ÚZEMÍM TACHOVSKA
ZA 2. SVĚTOVÉ VÁLKY. ČEST JEJICH PAMÁTCE!

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ASSOCIATION DES DEPORTES DE FLOSSENBÜRG
ET KOMMANDOS

On 13 April 1945, a railway transport brought 2 500 prisoners from the Buchenwald concentration and extermination camp to Tachov. Approximately 400 of the prisoners were already dead on arrival and another 200 were murdered on the spot. Jewish prisoners were also among the victims. The bodies of the victims were buried in a mass grave in the new Jewish cemetery in Tachov. (See the database entry Monument to the victims of the death transport, Tachov.) Other prisoners took the death march to the Flossenbürg concentration camp in Bavaria. Other death marches were made to the Flossenbürg concentration camp from the Lengenfeld and Zwickau concentration camps, both of which also passed through Tachov. The victims of these death marches were buried along the route of the march. The exhumation of their bodies took place from 18 to 21 September 1946 in the Tachov region in the following localities: Maršovy Chody (where a total of 39 remains were exhumed), Staré Sedliště (17), Ostrov (15), Doly (34), Tisová (2), Stará Knížecí Huť (42), Pastvina (16), Písařův Vesec (45) and Lesná (6). In 1948, the Tumulus in Tachov was established, where all these 216 victims were buried. Additional exhumations took place on 15–16 December 1952 at Kočov. A further 13 victims from this location were buried at the Tumulus on 20 December 1952. In the autumn of 1960, three more victims were also found near the village of Studánka and buried at the Tumulus on 11 April 1961. This brought the number of victims buried there to 232.

Cultural Heritage Monument reg. No. ÚSKP 40677/4-1679 – Monument to the victims of World War II

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