Polish war cemetery, photo MKiDN, 2017
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Polish war cemetery, photo BUDMEX, 2022
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Memorial plaque with the names of the fallen at the Polish war cemetery in Narpaj, photo Aleksandra Połeć, 2023
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Polish war cemetery

ID: WOJ-000164-W (UZ-0016)

Polish war cemetery

In January/February 1942, the redeployment of the Polish Armed Forces in the USSR (General Anders' Army) from the Soviet Russian republics to the Central Asian republics took place. The 7th Infantry Division was being formed in the Navajo region. A garrison sick bay was located in Narpaj. The military and civilians who died here from exhaustion and disease, and who arrived at the places where Polish units were being formed following the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on the so-called "amnesty for Polish citizens" announced on 12.08.1941, were buried in a specially created military cemetery. They were mainly soldiers of the Road Battalion and the 7th Battalion of Sappers.The cemetery, where the Polish section was located, was levelled due to works related to the laying of a high voltage line. The burial ground of Polish soldiers remained the property of Nuritdin Urunov, who did not develop the plot because of the graves there.In 2010. The Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Remembrance fenced the area of about 200 m2 with a low stone wall and placed symbolic 8 tombstones with a cross relief. In the centre, a central monument - a milepost topped with an eagle bas-relief - characteristic of all the rebuilt cemeteries of General Anders' soldiers, was placed. On both sides of the obelisk, plaques with fixed 49 names - 48 soldiers and one civilian - were set at its feet.The inscription on the monument in Polish and Uzbek reads: "TU SPOCZYWAJĄ POLACY / 48 SOLDIERS / OF THE POLISH ARMY / GEN. WŁ. ANDERS / AND CIVILIANS / FORMER PRISONERS / OF THE SOVIET CAMPS / WHO DIED IN 1942. / on the way to their homeland / in honour of their memory".At the entrance to the cemetery there are information plates with an inscription in Polish and Uzbek: "POLISH / WAR CEMETERY / NARPAY / FOUNDED BY / THE REPUBLIC OF POLAND / BY THE EFFORTS OF THE COUNCIL / FOR THE PROTECTION OF MEMORIES / OF WARS AND MURDER / THAT ALSO CARES / FOR IT".After the liquidation of the OPWiM Council, the care of the cemetery is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The Ministry of Culture is also conducting research work to establish a census of civilians buried in cemeteries in Central Asia.

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30.05.2024
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