Location
Česko > Pardubický kraj > okres Ústí nad Orlicí > Sruby > Sruby
Location Details: Cemetery at the Church of the Ascension
Coordinates
50.001746, 16.174719
Type
Upright stele or slab, Holocaust monument / memorial
Location
Cemetery, Mass grave
Artist / Maker / Company
Milan Srba (Realization)
Textual Content
Historical narrative, List of victims
Languages
Czech
Whom the Monument Commemorates
Death transports, Victims of concentration camps, Jewish victims
Victims of the death transport whose bodies were thrown off the train in January 1945
Iconographical Subject
Sprig
Material
Black and grey granite
Dimensions
Width: 110 cm
Height: 101 cm
Depth: 6 cm (Approx.)
Commissioned By
Municipality of Sruby
Dates
The tombstone consists of a stele of grey granite on which two vertical rectangular plaques of black granite are mounted parallel to each other. The narrower plaque on the left is decorated with an olive branch motif and the inscriptional plaque on the right bears a majuscule text. The graphic motif and the inscription are white. The grave consists of a kerb of polished traditional-looking grey granite which is covered with a slab of the same material as the kerb and the tombstone. In front of it, at ground level, is a small horizontal plate of black granite serving as a shelf for commemorative objects.
OBĚTI TRANSPORTU SMRTI
Z KONCENTRAČNÍHO TÁBORA
AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU
24.1.1945
127013 EDGAR GRUNWALD
TRANSPORTROVANÝ DO OSVĚTIMI 2.5.1942 BERLÍN
187028 MUŽ TRANSPORTOVANÝ DO OSVĚTIMI Z MAĎARSKA
A-8243 MUŽ TRANSPORTOVANÝ DO OSVĚTIMI Z MAĎARSKA
A-14123 MUŽ TRANSPORTOVANÝ DO OSVĚTIMI Z MAĎARSKA
B-10591 MUŽ TRANSPORTOVANÝ DO OSVĚTIMI
B-10561 MUŽ TRANSPORTOVANÝ DO OSVĚTIMI
B-13425 MUŽ TRANSPORTOVANÝ DO OSVĚTIMI
ODPOČÍVEJTE V POKOJI...
In a common grave are laid the bodies of seven victims of the death transport, who were found after being thrown from a train passing through the Sruby station on 24 January 1945. The transport was heading from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp to Sachsenhausen. Most of the death transports from this camp carried racially persecuted people.
In the cemetery, the bodies of the victims were placed in a grave marked by a low stone tombstone. A five-pointed star was originally placed on the grave site and planted with flowers. The tombstone was engraved with prison numbers, which were tattooed on the forearms of the victims.
The grave was renovated in 2023. Information was added to the tombstone about one of the victims, who was identified by her prison number.
Text from the original monument:
OBĚTI NĚMECKÉHO FAŠISMU
VĚZEŇ Č.
B 13 425, 127 013
B 10 591, 187 028
B 10 561
A 8 243
A 14 123
KONCENTRAČNÍ TÁBOR OSVĚTIM
NEZAPOMEŇTE!
Sruby Municipal Office, Chronicle of Sruby, pp. 126–127.
State District Archive in Ústí nad Orlicí, coll. District National Committee of Ústí nad Orlicí, box 1660, inv. No. 12058, war graves (1957).
State District Archive in Ústí nad Orlicí, coll. District National Committee of Ústí nad Orlicí, box 1660, inv. No. 12059, registry of military graves from World War II (1965).
State District Archive in Ústí nad Orlicí, coll. District National Committee of Ústí nad Orlicí, box 2717, inv. No. 17611, monuments, memorials, commemorative plaques (1977–1990).
Alžběta Langová – Renáta Růžičková – Štěpán Bartoš, Stopy Židů v Pardubickém kraji, Pardubice 2018, p. 134.
Michael Skopal, K identifikaci osvětimských židovských vězňů z evakuačního transportního vlaku 6226 pohřbených na hřbitovech ve Srubech a v Zámrsku, in: Sborník prací východočeských archivů VII, 2021, pp. 85–124.
Jitka Gruntová – František Vašek, Vlakové transporty vězňů z KT Osvětim v lednu 1945 přes východní Čechy, in: Pomezí Čech a Moravy, Vol. 4, Litomyšl 2000, p. 187.
Alžběta Langová