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Graves of Polish refugees in the cemetery at the Lutheran church, photo CDZWiP UP w Krakowie, 2018
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Graves of Polish refugees in the cemetery at the Lutheran church, photo CDZWiP UP w Krakowie, 2018
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Fotografia przedstawiająca Graves of Polish refugees in the cemetery at the Lutheran church
Graves of Polish refugees in the cemetery at the Lutheran church, photo CDZWiP UP w Krakowie, 2018
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Fotografia przedstawiająca Graves of Polish refugees in the cemetery at the Lutheran church
Graves of Polish refugees in the cemetery at the Lutheran church, photo CDZWiP UP w Krakowie, 2018
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Fotografia przedstawiająca Graves of Polish refugees in the cemetery at the Lutheran church
Graves of Polish refugees in the cemetery at the Lutheran church, photo CDZWiP UP w Krakowie, 2018
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Fotografia przedstawiająca Graves of Polish refugees in the cemetery at the Lutheran church
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Graves of Polish refugees in the cemetery at the Lutheran church

ID: WOJ-000359-W (TZ-0008)

Graves of Polish refugees in the cemetery at the Lutheran church

One of the settlements created for Polish civilian refugees who left the USSR in 1942 with General Anders's Army was a refugee camp located in Kidugala. The settlement was inhabited by Poles between 1942 and 1948, and housed around 1,000 people. The houses were built of brick and had thatched roofs. A six-class public school, a gymnasium and a secondary school (with a boarding school for young people from outside the settlement) were established, as well as a music school, a library and a community centre. The deceased were buried in a small cemetery, where 17 were laid to rest. Between 1991 and 1996 renovation work was carried out on this cemetery with funding from the Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Remembrance. A new fence was erected - brick with a metal gate. In the central part of the cemetery there was an obelisk with a cross, an indentation on the obelisk indicated that a plaque had probably been here before. Of the 17 gravestones, 3 were still unnamed. In 2021. The Documentation Centre for Displaced Persons, Expulsions and Resettlement of the Pedagogical University of Krakow, as part of a task co-financed by the programme of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage 'Sites of National Remembrance Abroad', carried out the renovation and documentation of this cemetery. As a result of this work, two children whose graves had not yet been identified - Paweł Noskowicz and Wicherek of unknown name - now have their gravestones signed. The inscription on the central obelisk reads: "POLACY ZMARLI / W KIDUGALI / 1942-1947". The cemetery is looked after by the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Dar-es-Salaam, which has financed an information board on the settlement, placed next to the cemetery. Information about the Kidugala settlement and the cemetery can be found in the publication "Zmarli Polacy w drodze do Ojczyzny. Polskie cmentarze w Afryce Wschodniej i Południowej 1942-1952" by Hubert Chudzio and Marcin Solarz, Krakow 2020 and on the website: https://polskiecmentarzewafryce.up.krakow.pl/.
Data założenia karty:
11.10.2022
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List of buried persons

16

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