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Cemetery in Vasilevshchyna

Wasilewszczyzna | Belarus
biał. Wasileuszczyna (Васілеўшчына)
ID: dok-001042-P

Cemetery in Vasilevshchyna

Wasilewszczyzna | Belarus
biał. Wasileuszczyna (Васілеўшчына)
Cemetery with Polish gravestone monuments. Information about the cemetery has been published (see bibliography).
According to Anna Lewkowska, Jacek Lewkowski and Wojciech Walczak, the active Catholic cemetery has a roughly square plan and an area of 0.16 hectares fenced in with a wooden fence. It was created in the second half of the 19th century. Only a few tombstones have survived from that time. The oldest, from 1866, has the following inscription: "D. O. M. TU REST / YÓZEF HOROSZKO / WAS 5 YEARS OLD DIED. 1866 R."
Bibliography:
  • „Cmentarze polskie poza granicami kraju” , raport, oprac. B. Gutowski, Warszawa 2022 (maszynopis).
  • Lewkowska Anna, Lewkowski Jacek, Walczak Wojciech, „Zabytkowe cmentarze na Kresach Wschodnich Drugiej Rzeczypospolitej. Wschodnie powiaty dawnego województwa białostockiego (obecnie na terenie Białorusi), Warszawa 2007.
Author:
Bartłomiej Gutowski, Dawid Mendrek
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