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Cemetery in Błosznia mała

ID: dok-000742-P/94347

Cemetery in Błosznia mała

Cemetery with Polish gravestone monuments. Information about the cemetery has been published (see bibliography). According to Lewkowski and Walczak, "the cemetery is located deep in the forest (...), situated on flat land to the north (...). The cemetery is unfenced and overgrown with forest, so its boundaries are illegible and difficult to determine. A roughly rectangular shape is drawn from the extent of the burials, covering an area of approximately 0.7 hectares'. It is impossible to determine the exact origin of the cemetery. The oldest surviving element is a granite boulder with a cross and the marking '1869'. The cited authors believe that "this may be the cemetery's foundation stone". There are a few gravestones in the cemetery from the late 19th century, but most are from the 1st half of the 20th century-"styleless, mostly terrazzo and concrete vertical slabs". Most have inscriptions on them in cyrillic. Of the Polish inscriptions, it is worth noting, the most frequently recurring surname Malyshko, including: "MAŁYSZKO FRANCISZEK / UR. 10 MARCH 1925 / D. 2 MAY 1952 / Ż. 25 / MEMORIAL FROM THE PARENTS" and "S. P. ALEKSANDRA / MAŁYSZKOWA / LIVED 60 YEARS / DIED. 6 JANUARY 1888 / MEMENTO FROM HER HUSBAND".

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. Województwo wileńskie na obszarze Republiki Białoruś”, Warszawa 2007.

Author:

Bartłomiej Gutowski, Dawid Mendrek
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