at the North Cemetery. Here rest the Polish concentration camp prisoners
who died shortly after they arrived in Lund on the white buses in 1945.
Most of the gravestones bear the name of the person buried there,
but some of the graves are anonymous.
March 12, 2026
Take the bike to the Northern Cemetery. Park it at the entrance to the northeast
towards Getingevägen. Follow the Northern Line towards Sankt Olof's Chapel at the Crematorium.
Just before turning left onto the Western Line. On the western side of the passage
are a number of graves. 7000 survivors from the German
concentration camps during World War II who came to Lund in
May 1945 with the white buses.
Many did not survive for long, some were buried here, mainly Poles.
Most of the gravestones have a name for those who were buried there,
some of the graves are anonymous. Some who lived on have also been buried
here.
Here is a stainless steel sculpture on a stone, depicting an angel holding a dead dove,
the victim, in one hand
and the soul rising from the other hand.
The stone on which it stands was taken from the beach at Ystad where they landed in Sweden.
It was created in memory of Polish victims and refugees from World War II.
In front of the sculpture is a stone with the Polish eagle.
Map
GPS: WGS84 decimal (longitud, latitud) 55.71446,13.19076