War cemetery from the 1920 battles in Kombinatovskaya Street, photo Fundacja Pomoc Polakom na Wschodzie, 2019
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Fotografia przedstawiająca Kombinatovskaya of Polish Army soldiers killed in the Polish-Bolshevik war
War cemetery from the 1920 battles in Kombinatovskaya Street, photo Fundacja Pomoc Polakom na Wschodzie, 2019
Licencja: all rights reserved
Fotografia przedstawiająca Kombinatovskaya of Polish Army soldiers killed in the Polish-Bolshevik war
War cemetery from the 1920 battles in Kombinatovskaya Street, photo Fundacja Pomoc Polakom na Wschodzie, 2019
Licencja: all rights reserved
Fotografia przedstawiająca Kombinatovskaya of Polish Army soldiers killed in the Polish-Bolshevik war
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Kombinatovskaya of Polish Army soldiers killed in the Polish-Bolshevik war

ID: WOJ-000179-W (BY-0188)

Kombinatovskaya of Polish Army soldiers killed in the Polish-Bolshevik war

The war cemetery from the 1920 Polish-Soviet fighting was fenced off before the Second World War. Posts have remained from this fence to the present day. The soldiers' tombs were marked with concrete crosses, which were destroyed after World War II. Despite this, the cemetery has survived to the present day, now squeezed in between garages and residential houses. Most of the gravestones were destroyed during the Soviet era. In the 1990s, Poles began restoration of the cemetery - tombstone crosses were added in imitation of the original ones, bearing the inscription "Soldier unknown". Some of the names of the buried soldiers were established thanks to the generosity of a resident of Brest, Mrs. Diana Chmielewska, who in 1967-1968 wrote down the inscriptions from the gravestones. On 12.07.1996 it was reported that some of the restored graves had been devastated. According to the decision dated 06.03.1997 of the Brest City Hall, the city authorities took the cemetery of the 1920 soldiers under their care. A cemetery caretaker was appointed to look after it. On the basis of Brest parish books, it was established that Wladyslawa Rucińska, who died of poisoning in 1943, is buried in this cemetery. The list also gives the names of 2 people killed by a shell on 22.06.1941 in the Rzeczyca colony, buried in the military cemetery by the Sikorski fort. They are Jadwiga Danieluk and Stanisława Danieluk. Currently, there are 372 graves in the cemetery, located in 8 regular rows on both sides of the main monument (4 rows on each side, with 22 graves in each row), in 4 irregular rows on the right side of the main monument (looking from the present wicket) [the analogous place on the left side of the monument is currently empty] (a total of 36 graves) and in 4 rows across the entire width of the cemetery (40 graves per row). The entrance to the cemetery is on the opposite side to that before the war, causing one to enter the cemetery from behind the main monument; the inscriptions on the graves also mostly face the present entrance (with the exception of a small number of crosses set deep into the cemetery). Opposite the present entrance, an information board with an inscription in Polish has been erected: "War cemetery of Polish soldiers 1920". At an undetermined time, two boards with inscriptions in Belarusian were placed on either side of the Polish inscription board, the left one stating that "Here lie the Belarusian soldiers of General Bulak-Balakhovich" and the right one that "those who fell for the freedom of the Fatherland". The renovation of the cemetery was carried out in 2018-2019 by the Foundation Aid to Poles in the East as part of a task co-financed by the programme of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage "Sites of National Remembrance Abroad".

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11.06.2024
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