Grabanlage für sowjetische ZwangsarbeiterInnen im Soldatenfriedhof Lienz

Plaques on wrought-iron crosses remind with names, birth and death dates of Soviet forced laborers, who are buried in the soldiers' cemetery near the municipal cemetery of Lienz. Some of them probably were not citizens of the USSR. The Gestapo hanged the Ukrainian forced laborer Michael Dzula on account of an intimate relationship with a local maid on 1.8.1942 in the Schinterwiese in Sillian. The 31-year-old was buried in the cemetery of Sillian, exhumed after the war, and reburied in the soldiers' cemetery of Lienz.