Michael Chartschenko
Liberation of Salzburg by U.S. troops on May 4, 1945
Photo: National Archive Washington
Liberation of Salzburg by U.S. troops on May 4, 1945
Photo: National Archive Washington
Memorial on the Salzburger Kommunalfriedhof
Photo: Gert Kerschbaumer
Photo: Gert Kerschbaumer
Michael Chartschenko was born on 20 February 1914 in Rubanowka (Ukraine). As a prisoner of war he was reassigned from the Dachau concentration camp to Salzburg in November 1944 to defuse delayed-action bombs.
He survived this »suicide mission« but was murdered by two Salzburg SS men just before the liberation of the city by U.S. troops on May 4, 1945. They shot him in Salzburg’s public park [the Volksgarten].
The body with bullet holes in the back, head and heart, of the at that point unidentified prisoner was buried in the local cemetery on 18 July 1945.
The non-partisan Provincial Association of Concentration Camp Detainees held its annual commemoration at the grave of the once unknown concentration camp prisoner (the grave no longer exists).
Nearby Stumbling Blocks
| Arenbergstraße 33 | 289m  | Neuwirth, Gisela Neuwirth, Max Neuwirth, Henriette |
| Arenbergstraße 29a | 307m | Deininger, Norbert |
| Hellbrunnerstraße 14 | 311m | Feitzinger, Berta Hahn, Therese |
| Arenbergstraße 25 | 322m | Schaffgotsch, Franz Gotthard |
| Prälat-Winkler-Straße 7 | 366m | Biack, Karl |
Stumbling Blocks
Laid 2007-08-22 at Volksgarten, Salzburg
A project from: Dachverband Salzburger Kulturstätten