The entrance to the mass grave with a monument is bordered by a stone wall and a fence. The enclosure wall has a lockable gate for pedestrians and vehicles. At the entrance, there is a plaque with an inscription cast in artificial resin. A tall, light-colored granite obelisk, whose former top is currently (2023) missing, stands on a rectangular pedestal bearing a black marble plaque with an inscription. In front of the obelisk is a mass grave. The surrounding area was originally paved, but today the adjacent paths are covered with gravel.

(Inscription at the entrance)

SPOLEČNÝ HROB OBĚTÍ II. SVĚTOVÉ VÁLKY
2 SOVĚTŠTÍ VOJÁCI-PPOR.VIKTOR VOLKOV-DRUHÝ NEZNÁMÝ
46 OBĚTÍ TAK ZV.TRANSPORTU SMRTI-POLITIČTÍ VĚZŇOVÉ POLSKÉ
HOLANDSKÉ-BELGICKÉ A FRANCOUZSKÉ NÁRODNOSTI 

VŠICHNI ZDE POLOŽILI SVÉ MLADÉ ŽIVOTY
NA PRAHU OSVOBOZENÍ NAŠICH NÁRODŮ
OD NĚMECKÉHO FAŠISMU V ROCE 1945

LIDÉ BDĚTE
DEJTE VŠECHNY SVÉ SÍLY PRO MÍR

(Inscription on the obelisk)

ČEST PAMÁTCE 46 BOJOVNÍKŮ ZA SVOBODU UMUČENÝCH NACISTY V R. 1945

The mass grave contains the remains of 44 martyred prisoners from the train evacuation transport No. 92420 from the Auschwitz concentration camp. The victims were mostly Jews from Poland, Germany, France, Czechoslovakia, Holland, belgium and probably also other countries. In addition, two Soviet soldiers are buried here. This transport, which passed through Horní Dvořiště, Kaplice and Netřebice railway stations on 25 January 1945, was destined for the Mauthausen concentration camp. However, because the camp was overcrowded, the train was sent back the following day. During the journey, many prisoners died due to the harsh transportation conditions and the dead were thrown off the train, so the railroad was lined with dead bodies. Local municipalities were instructed by the police to bury the bodies found on their territory immediately, and right at the place where they were found. Therefore, several mass graves were created along the railroad. The bodies collected in the area between Horní Dvořiště – Kaplice-nádraží were buried in a mass grave in Kaplice railway station. On 16 January 1945, two Soviet soldiers from a hospital train (route via České Budějovice to Austria), who had died of war injuries, were buried at the Kaplice railway station, too. Shortly after the war (1945–1946), the remains of the martyred prisoners were exhumed (some of them were identified by their prison numbers) and buried in Omlenice, Horní Dvořiště and Netřebice. (See the database entries Monument to the Victims of a Death Train, Horní Dvořiště and Monument to the Victims of a Death Train, Omlenička.)
The exhumation in Netřebice took place on 14 December 1945, as remembered by witnesses. It was attended by Jaroslav Vápeník, Jan Sezemský, Jaroslav Batík and František Vavrein, chairman of the National Committee of Netřebice. The exhumation was carried out by German prisoners of war. On 16 December 1945 the exhumed remains were buried in a common grave 16 m long and 6 m wide. The burial ceremony was officiated by Velešín parish priest Vichr. František Vavrein designated the site for the mass grave, visible from the road on the way between Netřebice and the railway station in Kaplice, as a reminder of the war for everyone passing by. The monument erected at the mass grave in Netřebice had previously stood in Kaplice as a reminder of the victims of World War I. Even earlier, its present pedestal had served as a monument to Emperor Joseph II, which used to stand in the square in Kaplice from 1899 and from which the statue of the Emperor was torn down by Czechoslovak soldiers in 1919. The pedestal without the statue remained in place until 1924, when it was supplemented by an obelisk with an eagle on the top and dedicated to the 85 fallen and missing soldiers from Kaplice in World War I. We do not know the exact date of the monument's removal from Kaplice Square. However, we know from old photographs that during the district congress of volunteer firefighters on 17 August 1947 the monument was already gone.
The chronicle of Kaplice states that in 1947: "On 1 April, the Municipal Council decided to donate an obelisk (former monument to the fallen in World War I from the town square) to the Municipality of Omlenice to be used as a monument to those who died in the death transport." However, the obelisk was eventually used for the monument in Netřebice. The reason for this change of destination is not clear, either the places were confused in the chronicle or the original plan was changed. Anyway, the original artwork was, most probably in 1947, converted into a monument to the victims of the death train, and a five-pointed star was attached at the top. A more extensive modification of the monument was carried out by Stanislav Zadražil in 1970-1971. In 1963, when the monument was listed as a cultural monument, it still bore a red five-pointed star on its top. After 1989 the star disappeared as it was stolen.
In 2010, a bronze memorial plaque was also stolen from the monument by unknown thieves, but it was recovered a short time later and deposited at the municipal office in Netřebice. On the monument the bronze plaque was replaced by a new one made of artificial resin. At the same time, an unknown thief damaged the fence and stole thirty square metres of paving from around the monument and the mass grave. In 2020, the entire area of the stone monument was cleaned of mosses and lichens, all joints were cleaned, the inscription was restored and the rosettes were colored. The municipality of Netřebice also designed a new finial for the monument to replace the missing star or eagle. However, the plan was rejected by the National Heritage Institute. Instead, the war grave was restored according to a design by Stanislav Muller and the site was brought into proper technical condition in 2020-2021.

Cultural Heritage Monument reg. No. ÚSKP 26389/3-5254

https://pamatkovykatalog.cz/pomnik-obetem-vlaku-smrti-19207798