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MUNICIPAL CREMATORIUM REICHENBACH

There were 246 documented dead prisoners from the Flossenburg sub camp of Lengenfeld. 189 were buried in Reichenbach/ Vogtland. 160 foreigners and 2 german KZ and other prisoners, victims of an allied air raid on Reichenbach were cremated in the municipal crematorium of Reichenbach. Also 57 dead of the allied air raid were buried in the Friedhof of Lenegnfeld.  After the typhus epidemic in the sub camp  the dead were no longer buried in Lengenfeld but next to the camp or in the fire reservoir.

Source: Benz, Wolfgang and Distel, Barbara. Der Ort Des Terror Band 4 CH Beck 2006

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