Memorial Stone for Forced Laborers near the St. Anna Chapel at the Faschina Pass

Between 1942 and 1945, dozens of people were conscripted into the labor service in the Walser communities of Faschina and Fontanella. The origin and exact number of the forced laborers, whether civilian workers or prisoners of war, cannot be determined. They were accommodated in so-called "foreigner camps," with approximately 60 such camps known to have existed in Vorarlberg. The "Memorial for Prisoners of War and Forced Laborers in Fontanella" remembers all nameless victims as well as two specifically known Russian forced laborers who died in the camps: Dimitri Mimailow and Franz Woizechowski. The memorial, located at two sites, consists of four stone blocks, chiseled by prisoners of war and left lying on the pass road after the camp was disbanded in 1945.