War quarters from the years 1919-1920 in the parish cemetery, photo MKiDN, 2022
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Fotografia przedstawiająca Quarter in the parish cemetery of Polish Army soldiers killed in the Polish-Bolshevik war
War quarters from the years 1919-1920 in the parish cemetery, photo MKiDN, 2022
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Fotografia przedstawiająca Quarter in the parish cemetery of Polish Army soldiers killed in the Polish-Bolshevik war
War quarters from the years 1919-1920 in the parish cemetery, photo MKiDN, 2022
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Fotografia przedstawiająca Quarter in the parish cemetery of Polish Army soldiers killed in the Polish-Bolshevik war
War quarters from the years 1919-1920 in the parish cemetery, photo MKiDN, 2022
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Fotografia przedstawiająca Quarter in the parish cemetery of Polish Army soldiers killed in the Polish-Bolshevik war
War quarters from the years 1919-1920 in the parish cemetery, photo MKiDN, 2022
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Fotografia przedstawiająca Quarter in the parish cemetery of Polish Army soldiers killed in the Polish-Bolshevik war
War quarters from the years 1919-1920 in the parish cemetery, photo MKiDN, 2022
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Fotografia przedstawiająca Quarter in the parish cemetery of Polish Army soldiers killed in the Polish-Bolshevik war
War quarters from the years 1919-1920 in the parish cemetery, photo MKiDN, 2022
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Fotografia przedstawiająca Quarter in the parish cemetery of Polish Army soldiers killed in the Polish-Bolshevik war
War quarters from the years 1919-1920 in the parish cemetery, photo MKiDN, 2022
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Fotografia przedstawiająca Quarter in the parish cemetery of Polish Army soldiers killed in the Polish-Bolshevik war
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Quarter in the parish cemetery of Polish Army soldiers killed in the Polish-Bolshevik war

ID: WOJ-000446-W (LT-0254)

Quarter in the parish cemetery of Polish Army soldiers killed in the Polish-Bolshevik war

In 1932, soldiers killed in the Polish-Bolshevik war were exhumed in Nemenchin and its surroundings - a war quarters was then created in the local cemetery. Some were originally buried in the local cemetery, after which they were exhumed to the war quarters. Others were moved from neighbouring villages - Bezdany, Sużany, Strypuny.

Originally, the quarters were much larger than they are now, but after World War II they were partly built over with civilian burials. Today it consists of two rows of graves. The first row consists of a spacious grave field delineated by low curbs with a cross in the middle. 18 unknown soldiers are buried here. The second row consists of 7 separate graves, whose grave fields are delimited by borders and crosses are composed similarly to the first row. In these graves rest: Witold Rodziewicz, Konstanty Pasiuk, Waclaw Szymanski and 6 unknown soldiers.

In 2017, on the initiative of the Union of Poles in Lithuania, a commemoration was set up in the first row of the cemetery - a slab placed on a pedestal on which the names of the fallen soldiers are engraved. The inscription reads:

"Poległym / na polu glorliwego w walce / o wolność Ojczyzny / Bednarczy Antoni szer. 1 p.p.leg. 27 IV 1919 / Bednarek Konstanty szer. 5 p.p.leg. 5 V 1919 / Biernacki Antoni kpl. 6 p.p.leg. 6 V 1919 / Gronkiewicz Adam sergeant 6th p.p.leg. 6 V 1919 / Krajewski Jan sergeant 1st p.p.leg. 23 IV 1919 / Pawlak Józef st.sz.sz. 6 p.p.leg. 6 V 1919 / Plawgo Bolesław ser. 5 p.p.leg. 4 V 1919 / Plewa Józef ser. 5 p.p.leg. 5 VI 1919 / Reyme Indhe private 5 p.p.leg. 5 V 1919 / Ręk Władysław P.p.p.leg. 5 V 1919 / Rodziewicz Witold st.st.gunner lidzki p.p.leg. 25 XII 1920 / Sawicki Antoni ser. 6 p.p.leg. 6 V 1919 / Sroczyński Marjan ser. 6 p.p.leg. 6 V 1919 / Tomtowski Antoni szer. 6 p.p.leg. 6 V 1919 / Tyburek Franciszek sergeant 6th p.p.leg. 6 V 1919 / Wilkoński Stanisław szer. 6 p.p.leg. 6 V 1919 / Wolkowski Stanisław szer. 6 p.p.leg. 6 V 1919 / A.D. 2017".

The renovation of the quarters was carried out in 2021-2022 by the Foundation in Aid to Poles in the East as part of the task co-financed by the programme of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage "Places of National Remembrance Abroad". During the works, all concrete elements were replaced with granite.

Publikacja:
01.04.2023
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