Home Army soldiers' quarters in the cemetery, photo MKiDN, 2018
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Fotografia przedstawiająca Home Army soldiers\' quarters in the cemetery
Home Army soldiers' quarters in the cemetery, photo MKiDN, 2018
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Fotografia przedstawiająca Home Army soldiers\' quarters in the cemetery
Home Army soldiers' quarters in the cemetery, photo MKiDN, 2018
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Fotografia przedstawiająca Home Army soldiers\' quarters in the cemetery
Home Army soldiers' quarters in the cemetery, photo MKiDN, 2022
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Fotografia przedstawiająca Home Army soldiers\' quarters in the cemetery
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Home Army soldiers' quarters in the cemetery

ID: WOJ-000134-W (LT-0080)

Home Army soldiers' quarters in the cemetery

On 7.11.2009, during a solemn funeral ceremony, the remains of 3 young men, exhumed during exhumation works in the Majak locality near Ejszyszki, carried out on behalf of the Council for the Protection of Remembrance of Combat and Martyrdom by a team of Professor Andrzej Kola from Toruń in autumn 2008 and spring 2009, were buried in a newly created cemetery section. The exhumed remains bore traces of gunshots and stabs with a typical Soviet triple-barreled bayonet. It is highly probable that they were: Lt. Jan Borysewicz "Krysia" - a Home Army soldier, commander of a partisan unit; Tamulewicz (from the Home Army post in Kowalki, who went in search of the body of "Krysia") and Jozef Kwiecień "Mucha" (shot on 21.01.1945). Unfortunately, no objects were found next to the exhumed remains that would make it possible to identify the killed soldiers. However, all accounts of the death and "burial" of Jan Borysewicz "Krysia" indicate that the exhumed remains belonged to him and his comrades. The grave is located in the main avenue of the cemetery, on the left side. It consists of a main commemoration in the form of a high cross and individual graves. The inscription in Polish and Lithuanian on the main cross reads: "In tribute to the soldiers of the Home Army to the sons of this land fallen in 1944-45 in battles against Soviet troops resting in nameless graves of the Vilnius and Novogrudok lands Honour their memory!". Small crosses bear inscriptions: "Lieutenant Jan Borysewicz "Krysia" fell near Kowalky on 21 I 1945""Unknown soldier of the Home Army 1945""Unknown soldier of the Home Army 1945""Unknown soldier of the Home Army 1945".The quarters were designed and made by the sculptor Marek Moderau, the work was financed by the OPWiM Council. Jan Borysewicz is mentioned on the memorial plaque in honour of Home Army soldiers, located in the church in Naczy (now Belarus), moreover, a modest monument was erected to him in Kowalki, where he died. In 2017-2018, the Institute of National Remembrance carried out search and exhumation work in Ejszyszki, Monkievičy and in the Rudniki Forest on the so-called Long Island. The found remains of the Home Army soldiers were buried in the Ejszyszki cemetery - 7 new burials were made there at that time. The name of only 1 of these soldiers was established - it is Cpl. Edward Buczek. Crosses of the same form as those set up in 2009 were erected on the new graves, with inscriptions indicating the year and place where the corpse was retrieved from its original burial place.

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10.06.2024
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