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Fotografia przedstawiająca Mass grave of Polish Army soldiers killed in the Polish-Bolshevik war - the so-called \"Tomb of the Unknown Soldier\" in the Catholic cemetery
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Fotografia przedstawiająca Mass grave of Polish Army soldiers killed in the Polish-Bolshevik war - the so-called \"Tomb of the Unknown Soldier\" in the Catholic cemetery
photo MKiDN, 2021
Licencja: all rights reserved
Fotografia przedstawiająca Mass grave of Polish Army soldiers killed in the Polish-Bolshevik war - the so-called \"Tomb of the Unknown Soldier\" in the Catholic cemetery
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Mass grave of Polish Army soldiers killed in the Polish-Bolshevik war - the so-called "Tomb of the Unknown Soldier" in the Catholic cemetery

Dyneburg | Latvia
łot. Daugavpils
ID: WOJ-000100-W (LV-0021a)

Mass grave of Polish Army soldiers killed in the Polish-Bolshevik war - the so-called "Tomb of the Unknown Soldier" in the Catholic cemetery

Dyneburg | Latvia
łot. Daugavpils

In the Catholic cemetery there is a plot - a mass grave of at least 15 soldiers of the first, second and fourth companies of the 1st Legion Infantry Regiment killed on 3 January 1920 during the battle with the Bolsheviks near Dyneburg. Their funeral took place on 10 January. Also buried in this grave are two legionnaires of the 3rd company of the 6th Legion Infantry Regiment, fallen on 4 January 1920, whose ashes were initially deposited in Kokino Wielkie. A brick tombstone with a marble plaque with the inscription: "Ś.P. / Grave / of the Unknown / Soldier" is the central element of the grave. It was probably erected in the mid-1930s, while the marble plaque was placed in the late 1950s. The grave is surrounded by a low fence made of sandstone posts connected with metal bars. In 2020, the Foundation in Aid to Poles in the East, as part of a task co-financed by the Programme of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage "Sites of National Remembrance Abroad", rebuilt the grave by creating a cemetery section. The sandstone slabs with a relief in the form of a cross bear the names of 14 soldiers established by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The author of the project is the architect Marek Partyka. Evidentiary work continued by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage has shown that in all probability PFC Stefan Mielczarek from the 4th company of the 1st Infantry Leg. 1 pp. Leg. also fallen on 3 January 1920 and buried on 10 January in Dyneburg in the Catholic cemetery. The cemetery has been under the care of local Poles for many years and has a symbolic meaning for them. The Union of Poles in Latvia has also placed in front of it memorials to the victims of the Second World War - the listed Polish teachers and social activists from Dyneburg who died in Stalin's gulags after the deportations carried out in 1940 and 1949, and the Siberians from the period 1941-1956 who came from the vicinity of Dyneburg. Also commemorated is Leon Broel-Plater who was executed in 1863 in the Dneburg fortress, his resting place has not been established. The erection of the plaques was subsidised by the Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Sites. Behind the cemetery, in the immediate vicinity of the cemetery, is an unnamed 1920 soldiers' grave with a two-metre-high reinforced concrete legion cross erected by the OPWiM Council in 1997 with a Polish-Latvian inscription on the plaque: "The grave of Polish soldiers killed in 1919-1920 for the independence of Latvia". This grave was also renovated as part of the same task by the Aid to Poles in the East Foundation in 2020 and now forms a unified composition with the quarter. According to local people, two Polish officers killed in the Latgalian campaign are buried there.

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