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Resting place of a Polish-German prisoner of war in the war cemetery, photo Haakon Vinje, Norwegian War Graves Service, 2023
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Fotografia przedstawiająca Resting place of a Polish-German prisoner of war in the war cemetery
Resting place of a Polish-German prisoner of war in the war cemetery, photo Haakon Vinje, Norwegian War Graves Service, 2023
Licencja: all rights reserved
Fotografia przedstawiająca Resting place of a Polish-German prisoner of war in the war cemetery
Resting place of a Polish-German prisoner of war in the war cemetery, photo Haakon Vinje, Norwegian War Graves Service, 2023
Licencja: all rights reserved
Fotografia przedstawiająca Resting place of a Polish-German prisoner of war in the war cemetery
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Resting place of a Polish-German prisoner of war in the war cemetery

ID: WOJ-000441-W (NO-0017)

Resting place of a Polish-German prisoner of war in the war cemetery

In 2022, the Krigsgravtjenesten (War Graves Service of the Norwegian Ministry of Culture and Equality), after discovering the identity of Czeslaw Szafran buried in a mass grave among Soviet prisoners of war in Oslo cemetery, turned to the Norwegian research and documentation centre Falstad Centre to check the war graves registers to see if there were more such cases. The Falstad Centre's research led it to find the name of a Pole - Piotr Kujawa - resting among 928 Soviet and 25 Yugoslav prisoners of war in the Jørstadmoen war cemetery. He was registered as prisoner of war No. 191 in Stalag X_B Sandbostel, Germany. On 18.01.1942 he was assigned to Bau-Battalion No. 30 in Norway. Lillehammer was the location of the main POW camp known as Stalag 303, which mainly housed Soviet and Yugoslavian prisoners of war. The circumstances of Peter Kujawa's death are not known. The cemetery is located next to the current military base. It was designed by one of Norway's best-known landscape architects, Karen Reistad. It is a forest plot and in the centre stands an obelisk with a bas-relief of a soldier's profile and an inscription in Norwegian: "TIL MIRINE OM / 954 UTENLANDSKE / SOLDATORS DOD I TYSK / KRIGSFANGENSKAP / 1942 - 1945". In 2023, a project was realised to place 21 metal, two-metre-high panels behind the monument with the established names of the soldiers resting here. Each panel contains up to 48 names; in addition, one of the panels bears informative text about the quarter. Piotr Kujawa's name appears with his nationality on a separate section of the panel also intended to commemorate POWs from Yugoslavia. The cemetery is open to visitors, but it is advisable to inform the nearby military base in advance of your visit.
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