Kwatera żołnierzy 1 Armii Polskiej w ZSRR, zmarłych w 1944 r., photo Rada OPWiM, 1997
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Fotografia przedstawiająca The quarters of the soldiers of the 1st Polish Army in the USSR who died in 1944.
Kwatera żołnierzy 1 Armii Polskiej w ZSRR, zmarłych w 1944 r., photo Rada OPWiM, 1997
Licencja: all rights reserved
Fotografia przedstawiająca The quarters of the soldiers of the 1st Polish Army in the USSR who died in 1944.
Kwatera żołnierzy 1 Armii Polskiej w ZSRR, zmarłych w 1944 r., photo Rada OPWiM, 1997
Licencja: all rights reserved
Fotografia przedstawiająca The quarters of the soldiers of the 1st Polish Army in the USSR who died in 1944.
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The quarters of the soldiers of the 1st Polish Army in the USSR who died in 1944.

ID: WOJ-000663-W (UA-6714)

The quarters of the soldiers of the 1st Polish Army in the USSR who died in 1944.

In 1944, subdivisions of the 1st Polish Army in the USSR under the command of General Zygmunt Berling were stationed in Sumy. In the local Central Cemetery, where a war cemetery was established, soldiers who had died before the start of combat operations, as a result of diseases contracted during exile deep into the USSR, were buried.

After the end of the Second World War, the Polish side received from the Soviet side a list, drawn up in Russian, of the names of the 42 soldiers buried here.

The cemetery is unfenced. Its focal point is a 3-metre high stone figure of a soldier, at the foot of which there is an inscription board with an inscription in Ukrainian [translated into Polish: "Here are buried soldiers of the Polish Army / who fell in battle / against the German-fascist / partitioners in 1944"]. On either side of the soldier's statue stretches a low wall, on which two plaques were attached - in Polish and Ukrainian. The Polish inscription contained linguistic errors, as a result of which, in 2013. The Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Remembrance funded a change to the plaque. The current inscription reads: 'Here lie the soldiers of the People's Polish Army who died in the military hospital between 21 II 1944 and 25 VI 1944.

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28.05.2024
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