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Cemetery in Plaskovichy

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Cemetery in Plaskovichy

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 has a rectangular plan and an area of 0.4 hectares, surrounded by a metal fence and mesh. It was established in the middle of the 19th century. A considerable number of tombstones (several dozen) come from the second half of this century. The oldest, from 1868, belongs to Józef Terajewicz. Its inscription reads: "S. P. / JÓZEF / TERAJEWICZ / LIVED 75 YEARS / UM. 14 APRIL. 1868 R." Quoting the aforementioned authors, also buried in the cemetery is "Wladyslaw Terajewicz h. Korwin (1870-1943), landowner, municipal councillor and chairman of the volunteer fire brigade in the village of Domarackie, [who] was robbed and thrown out of his estate of Chorosowszczyzna in September 1939. He took up residence with his family in an abandoned chapel in the nearby parish. After about 10 days (...) the Terajewicz family was allowed to live in two rooms of their own manor house (...). On 15 March 1940, however, Władysław Terajewicz was arrested by the NKVD and taken first to a detention centre in Klecko, and then to a prison in Nesvizh, where he remained until the summer of 1941. He was sentenced by the NKVD OSO to 5 years' gulag. Before the outbreak of the Soviet-German war itself, in June 1941, he was taken to a prison in Brest-on-the-Bug, from where he was released by the Germans. (...) With the consent of the German occupation authorities, he took over the administration of his estate. In the autumn of 1943, Soviet partisans burnt down all the farm buildings on the estate. Shortly afterwards, on 5 November 1943, Wladyslaw Terajewicz died." The inscription from his gravestone, handwritten in oil paint, reads "WŁADYSŁAW TERAJEWICZ / UR. 9 I 1870 / UM. XI. 1943". The cemetery is maintained in good condition.

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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