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Polish quarters in the Armenian cemetery, photo Armenian Foundation, 2019
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Fotografia przedstawiająca Polish quarters in the Armenian cemetery
Polish quarters in the Armenian cemetery, photo Armenian Foundation, 2020
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Fotografia przedstawiająca Polish quarters in the Armenian cemetery
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Polish quarters in the Armenian cemetery

Meszhed | Iran
pers. Maszhad (مشهد‎)
ID: WOJ-000389-W (IR-0009)

Polish quarters in the Armenian cemetery

Meszhed | Iran
pers. Maszhad (مشهد‎)

The Polish section contains the bodies of soldiers from the Anders Army and civilian refugees who left the USSR with the army. There are 22 individual graves (among them 7 unnamed) and one mass grave, in which, according to local Armenians, 7 female junachs were buried (3 female junachs were commemorated, in Polish sources there are also only three names). In addition to those commemorated in the cemetery, the cemetery's extant Book of the Dead includes: Sgt. Jan Rogowski, volunteer Józefa Waśniowska and Jerzy Ptak, who are also buried here.
Work on arranging the Polish cemetery began as early as 1942. The overheads and costs associated with the construction of the children's graves were covered by funds from the Polish Consulate in Bombay, which organised the transport of children to India, while the soldiers' graves were financed by the Military Evacuation Base in Tehran. The plot was separated and fenced, 22 individual graves were covered with stone and wooden crosses were placed on them with the personal details of those buried (name, surname, date of birth and death). The crosses were later replaced by stone crosses.
In the middle of the plot is the aforementioned collective stone grave of three female juncheurs who died in a car crash. It bears a plaque with a cross and the inscription: "Polish female juniors died a tragic death in a car crash near Kuchan on 13 September 1942" and with the names of the victims. The victims of the second crash, which took place near Kuchan on 18.11.1942, were servicemen - Ignacy Korman and Second Lieutenant Tadeusz Iżycki from a transport of delegates from Russia. Ignacy Korman died on the spot, while Lt. Iżycki died of his wounds the following day.
The quarters were renovated by the management of the Armenian cemetery in 1958. In 1963, with funds from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Polish People's Republic, the graves were thoroughly renovated and the fence was supplemented with metal bars. The Embassy of the People's Republic of Poland funded the ongoing care of the graves. With funding from the Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Remembrance, the quarters were rebuilt between 2010 and 2012, while in 2016 a central monument characteristic of the cemeteries of soldiers of the Anders Army was erected. In 2017. Ministry of Culture and National Heritage carried out renovation and construction works again. Currently, the cemetery quarters are taken care of on a permanent basis by the Armenian Foundation (caretaking, cleaning, minor repairs) within the framework of a task subsidised by the programme of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage "Sites of National Remembrance Abroad".
The Armenian cemetery in Meshhed is formally used by the local Armenian community, but the majority of Armenians have left the town, which makes the cemetery long disused and probably very rarely visited. The good condition of the Polish quarters now contrasts with the other burials in this necropolis.

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List of buried persons

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