Graves of Home Army soldiers killed in battle against the NKVD, photo MKiDN, 2018
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Graves of Home Army soldiers killed in battle against the NKVD

ID: WOJ-000447-W/106559 (LT-0260)

Graves of Home Army soldiers killed in battle against the NKVD

On 5/6.01.1945, a Home Army unit under the command of Lt. Czeslaw Stankiewicz "Komar" fought a battle with a Soviet operational group in the vicinity of Niewoniance. 8 Soviets were killed. The AK unit lost 7 men, who were buried in a field cemetery in the forest. They were buried here: Jan and Zygmunt Jackiewicz, pseudonyms "Krzak" and "Zyga", Daniel Nosewicz "Drab", Edmund Wiłkaniec, Michał Karnilow "Karcz" ("Kruk"), and Czesław Tietianiec and Ludwik Malewski.

The graves do not form a compact quarters and are distributed in different parts of the cemetery.

Nosewicz was buried in an earthen grave, walled with a thick curb, at the top of which a monument in the shape of a stylised tree trunk topped with a cross has been placed, to the trunk is attached an inscription board with the inscription: "Nosewicz Daniel died a tragic death 1945 at the age of 27"; the whole is surrounded by a metal fence.

Karnilov and Vilkaniec are buried in two earthen graves, walled in concrete, with concrete crosses at the top, inscriptions painted in gold paint on the crosses; the whole is fenced with metal bars fixed on concrete posts. Inscriptions: "A.K. Karnilov Mikhail alias Karcz", "A.K. Edmund Wiłkaniec died 5 I 1945".

The Jackiewicz brothers were buried in an earthen grave, walled with a low curb, at the top of which was placed a vertical rectangular monument topped with a cross, on which was placed a black inscription board with the inscription: "Zygmunt Jackiewicz 1911-1945 / Jan Jackiewicz 1919-1945 / Peace to their souls / Remembrance from the family".

Tietianiec and Malewski are buried in a common earth grave without a kerbstone, on which a metal cross with an inscription plaque has been placed, the grave is fenced with a fence; the whole is within a larger metal fence, which also includes the tombstone monument of the Tietianiec family. The inscription: "Here lie the ashes of the soldiers of the AK / Ś.P. Czesław Tietianiec born 1923 / Ludwik Malewski born 1926 / died a tragic death on 6 I 1945 in battle with the NKVD in the Rudnicka Forest / This memorial is dedicated by the family".

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01.04.2023
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Graves of Home Army soldiers killed in battle against the NKVD, photo MKiDN, 2018

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