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Lida Slobodka cemetery

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Lida Slobodka cemetery

Cemetery with Polish gravestone monuments. Information about the cemetery has been published (see bibliography). According to Anna Lewkowska, Jacek Lewkowski and Wojciech Walczak, "the Catholic cemetery in Słobódka is located to the south-west of the town. It was established on a rectangular plan (...). The cemetery is dominated by post-1945 burials. In the main alley, 40 m away from the entrance, on the eastern (left) side, there are three tombstones of priests, moved in 1986 from the old Catholic cemetery to protect it from devastation and profanation in view of the threat of its liquidation. Next to it is the mass grave of 9 priests. At the site of the mass grave of the Jews, the Germans also murdered nine priests on 10 March 1943. (...) During the night, from Holy Saturday to Easter, the local population moved the bodies of the priests and buried them near the house involved in the exhumation. After the war, in the 1960s, the priests' corpses were again exhumed and buried in the Słobódka parish cemetery. A monument was founded at the burial site." The inscription preceding the list of names: "PRIESTS MARTYRS / MURDERED IN LIDA / 10 MARCH 1943. / REQUIESTAT IN PACE"

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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