Resting place of a Polish-German prisoner of war in the war cemetery, photo Haakon Vinje, Norwegian War Graves Service, 2023
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Resting place of a Polish-German prisoner of war in the war cemetery, photo Haakon Vinje, Norwegian War Graves Service, 2023
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Photo showing Resting place of a Polish-German prisoner of war in the war cemetery
Resting place of a Polish-German prisoner of war in the war cemetery, photo Haakon Vinje, Norwegian War Graves Service, 2023
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Resting place of a Polish-German prisoner of war in the war cemetery

ID: WOJ-000441-W/149624 (NO-0017)

Resting place of a Polish-German prisoner of war in the war cemetery

In 2022, after discovering the identity of Czeslaw Szafran buried in a mass grave among Soviet prisoners of war in Oslo cemetery, the Krigsgravtjenesten (War Graves Service of the Norwegian Ministry of Culture and Equality) asked the Falstad Centre for Research and Documentation to check the war grave registers to see if there were more such cases. Research carried out at the Falstad Centre led to finding the name of a Pole - Piotr Kujawa - resting among 928 Soviet and 25 Yugoslav prisoners of war in the Jørstadmoen war cemetery. He was registered as prisoner of war No. 191 at Stalag X_B Sandbostel in Germany. On 18 January 1942, he was assigned to Bau-Battalion No. 30 in Norway. Lillehammer was the site of the main POW camp known as Stalag 303, which housed mainly Soviet and Yugoslav POWs. The circumstances of Peter Kujawa's death are not known. The cemetery is located next to the current military base. It was designed by one of Norway's best-known landscape architects, Karen Reistad. It is a forest plot and in the centre stands an obelisk with a bas-relief of a soldier's profile and an inscription in Norwegian: "TIL MIRINE OM / 954 UTENLANDSKE / SOLDATORS DOD I TYSK / KRIGSFANGENSKAP / 1942 - 1945". In 2023, a project was realised to place 21 two-metre-high metal panels behind the monument with the established names of the soldiers resting here. Each panel contains up to 48 names; in addition, one of the panels bears informative text about the quarters. Piotr Kujawa's name appears with his nationality on a separate section of the panel also intended to commemorate POWs from Yugoslavia. The cemetery is open to visitors, but it is advisable to inform the nearby military base in advance of your visit.

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18.01.2024
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Resting place of a Polish-German prisoner of war in the war cemetery Photo showing Resting place of a Polish-German prisoner of war in the war cemetery Gallery of the object +2
Resting place of a Polish-German prisoner of war in the war cemetery, photo Haakon Vinje, Norwegian War Graves Service, 2023
Resting place of a Polish-German prisoner of war in the war cemetery Photo showing Resting place of a Polish-German prisoner of war in the war cemetery Gallery of the object +2
Resting place of a Polish-German prisoner of war in the war cemetery, photo Haakon Vinje, Norwegian War Graves Service, 2023
Resting place of a Polish-German prisoner of war in the war cemetery Photo showing Resting place of a Polish-German prisoner of war in the war cemetery Gallery of the object +2
Resting place of a Polish-German prisoner of war in the war cemetery, photo Haakon Vinje, Norwegian War Graves Service, 2023

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