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Holshany cemetery

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Holshany cemetery

The church cemetery is located next to the Baroque church of St John the Baptist from 1618. There are 3 gravestones preserved in the cemetery. The first, the largest of them, is the quarter of soldiers from the First World War. The quarter has a granite slab, finished with a pointed arch. In its upper part there is a bas-relief of a soldier kneeling on his left knee. Below it are engraved the names of German soldiers who died in 1915. The second gravestone is the grave of Holshan parishioners who died in 1941 in Oshmia. The last gravestone is located in front of the church and is the resting place of Father Peter Oranski, who died in 1942 at the hands of the Germans. The inscriptions of the tombstones have been preserved: / KS. PIOTR ORANSKI / MURDERED / 19. VI. 1942/WIECZNY ODPOCZYNEK RACZ/ MU DAC PANIE/./ PARAFIANIE HOLSZANSCY / DIED TRAGICALLY 20.06.1941 R. / W OSZMIANA / ANTONI ROMANOWSKI/ ANTONI MOKRZYCKI / JOZEF KARCZEWSKI/ WIKTOR MASALSKI/ GEDEON ZAHORENKO / WIECZNY ODPOCZYNEK RACZ IM DAC PANIE/./ WWI quarters: ICH HATTE INEN / KAMERADEN / GEFR. JOS. GOLDBACH / 29.9.1915/ 5 R28 /INF. BORKOWSKI + 27.9.1915 / 9L. I. R.5 / INF. AUG. POPPE / + 28.9.1915 (...)/.
Information about the cemetery has been published (see bibliography).

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, Salomea Grabowska
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