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Memorial Ossuary at Jindřichovice

Jindřichovice, Karlovy Vary, Western Bohemia · Czechia

A mausoleum of Serbian prisoners of war in western Bohemia, twenty-five kilometres from Karlovy Vary. Some forty thousand prisoners passed through the Austro-Hungarian camp at Jindřichovice between 1915 and 1918; most of them were Serbs, soldiers and civilians, and as many as forty people died there every day. On land donated to the Yugoslav state by the Czechoslovak President Tomáš Masaryk, a memorial ossuary was built in 1931 to the design of architect Vladimír Brandt, holding the remains of 7,100 Serbian and 189 Russian soldiers. A few kilometres away, in a forest, lies a military cemetery with some 1,600 Serbian graves.