Keep Awake Your Memory

My grandfather showed me his last resting-place at the largest cemetery of Magdeburg today.

Because he was persecuted in WWII and survived the Shoa in a German working camp in central France he has the entitlement to be burried at the graveyard for the Victims of Facism.

There is one subtleness. In the former GDR and nowadays there is an official distinction and hierarchy between "victims of facism" and "fighters against facism", the latter applies only to political prisoners in concentration camps.
There is no official and distinct feature of who is who but it results in different pretensions the victims/fighters can have. E.g. he gets less compensation and is not entitled to have a red triangle (which is the symbol for the fighter) on his grave ... The worst was the defiance he was exposed in the GDR of being an VoF (i.e. a Jew) and not a FaF (i.e. a communist).

We also visited my grandmother's parents grave and some of the graves of persons who were persecuted with him.

My grandfather's mother died in 1938 shortly after the Kristallnacht. His father died in 1943 after not recovering from slave labour. They were burried in Jena but there graves don't exist anymore.