Central Register of War Graves

War Graves and Memorial Sites

The official register of the Czech Ministry of Defence, on our map: 42,857 sites and 347,221 names across four countries, from 1741 to 2019. Find a specific person, or a site near you.

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War Graves and Memorial Sites
42,857sites on record
347,221names buried or commemorated
1741–2019time span
4countries: Czechia, Slovakia, Poland, Ukraine

What you will find on the map

Find a specific name
Search by name among 347,221 people buried or commemorated. For each one you will find their dates of birth and death, place of birth and death, and cause of death, where known.
Find a site near you
Filter by municipality, region or register number. With 42,857 sites, you will find something in almost every town – a monument on the village green, a plaque on a school, a grave in a cemetery.
Let the app guide you
For sites with coordinates, the app will navigate you straight to the grave or memorial, just as it does for other sites in our register.
A verified source
The data comes from the Central Register of War Graves kept by the Czech Ministry of Defence. Each site includes a direct link to the original record.

Two centuries, not just two world wars

The vast majority of records belong to the two world wars – 20,930 sites from the Second World War, 17,309 from the First, and a further 2,508 bear traces of both. But the register reaches much further back: 1,231 sites commemorate the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, and over a hundred sites even the Napoleonic Wars. The earliest recorded death dates from 1741.

The South Moravian Region has the most sites (10,905) – a result of the front line's advance in 1945 as well as the 1866 battlefields around Slavkov and Brno. Prague follows with 6,291 sites.

The most common cause of death on record is not direct combat. Fewer than 39% of records are marked "killed in action" – the rest are disease, wounds, missing in action, accidents, and 167,052 people (nearly half) are recorded simply as "other": people who died in captivity, while fleeing, or in circumstances that can no longer be established precisely. The register therefore covers not only fallen soldiers, but also civilian victims and prisoners.

"Buried" and "Commemorated" are not the same thing

The site card shows whether people are actually buried there (a war grave with remains), or whether it is only a place of commemoration – a monument or memorial plaque (a memorial site). A memorial site lists the names of those who fell elsewhere and whose remains were never found, or lie elsewhere. Of the 42,857 sites, 28,891 are war graves containing remains.

From the Central Register of War Graves (CEVH), kept by the Czech Ministry of Defence. It covers war graves and memorial sites in Czechia as well as Czech war graves abroad. Each site includes a link to the original record in the ministry's register.
Not entirely. For 882 sites, the names of those buried have not survived – these are mostly memorial sites and mass graves without available documentation. For the remaining sites, the register does include names, and you can search them.
No. It also covers civilian victims, prisoners, and victims of death marches and concentration camps. It spans from 1741 to 2019 – far more than just the two world wars.

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