Graves of Polish soldiers and civilian refugees from 1939 in the local cemetery, photo Rada OPWiM, 2013
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Fotografia przedstawiająca Graves of Polish soldiers and civilian refugees from 1939 in the local cemetery
Graves of Polish soldiers and civilian refugees from 1939 in the local cemetery, photo Rada OPWiM, 2013
Licencja: all rights reserved
Fotografia przedstawiająca Graves of Polish soldiers and civilian refugees from 1939 in the local cemetery
Graves of Polish soldiers and civilian refugees from 1939 in the local cemetery, photo Armenian Foundation, 2019
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Fotografia przedstawiająca Graves of Polish soldiers and civilian refugees from 1939 in the local cemetery
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Graves of Polish soldiers and civilian refugees from 1939 in the local cemetery

ID: WOJ-000151-W (RO-0047)

Graves of Polish soldiers and civilian refugees from 1939 in the local cemetery

Piteşti was home to an internment camp for Polish soldiers in 1939, which in September of that year held 8 senior officers, 68 junior officers and 1150 soldiers; after a month the camp's stock had dwindled to 899 Polish servicemen. Civilian refugees were also settled in Piteşti. Thirteen graves of soldiers and civilians rested in the local cemetery. The graves of nine of them (Jan Gogolewski, Jerzy and Julia Krzymowski, Antoni Łabiak, Paweł Malik, Franciszek Pudzianowski, Kazimierz Schmidt, Paweł Woydyno, Jan Wuzik) form a coherent quarters that is not separated by a fence. In the vicinity of the quarter, among the Romanian graves, the following are buried: Petronela Jaworska and Bolesław Czaporowski (third and sixth grave counting from the Polish border of the quarter). The location of four graves could not be determined (Cezary Bawarski, Józef Kuryłowski, Barbara Pajor and Kornela Matulka), with two unnamed graves in the cemetery plot. General renovation of the cemetery was carried out in 2013. Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Remembrance. Small granite tombstones with inscriptions and simple granite crosses were placed in place of the damaged old tombstones. The surface of the graves and between the graves was filled with decorative grit. A free-standing information board made of acrylic glass with engraved inscriptions in Polish and Romanian was erected on the side of the access to the plot: "TO THE POLISH REFUGEES / FROM THE YEARS OF WORLD WAR II / RESTING / IN THE CEMETERY / OF THE FRIENDLY ROMANIAN LAND / HOMELAND".
In 2022, soldiers of the Polish Military Contingent in Krajowa carried out cleaning work here.
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01.08.2022
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