Polish war cemetery, photo MKiDN, 2019
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Polish war cemetery, photo BUDMEX, 2021
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Polish war cemetery

ID: WOJ-000162-W/73662 (UZ-0008)

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. Units of the 6th Infantry Division and the Army Organisation Centre were located in the then Kashkadarya region. There was also a massive influx of civilians to the places of formation of Polish units following the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on 12.08.1941 on the so-called "amnesty for Polish citizens." At the Polish War Cemetery in Galabulag, civilians who died of illness and exhaustion are laid to rest, remembered by local elderly residents. The Director of the State Archive of the Kashkadarya Region has confirmed the location of the burials of around a hundred Poles in the village of Galabulag. The Council for the Protection of Remembrance of Struggle and Martyrdom restored the cemetery in 2010, placing 17 small tombstones in places where traces of burials remained. The cemetery covers an area of 2030 m2 and is fenced with a stone wall. In its central place, on the axis of the entrance, there is a monument in the form of a mile-long pillar with an eagle bas-relief, typical of the cemeteries of General Anders' soldiers. The monument bears an inscription in Polish and Uzbek: "TU SPOCZYWAJĄ POLACY / ŻOŁNIERZE / ARMII POLSKA / GEN. WŁ. ANDERS / AND CIVILIANS / FORMER PRISONERS / OF THE SOVIET GULAGS / WHO DIED IN 1942. / on the way to their homeland / honour their memory".At the entrance to the cemetery there are information plates with an inscription in Polish and Uzbek: "POLISH / WAR CEMETERY / GULABULAG / FUNDED BY / THE REPUBLIC OF POLAND / BY THE EFFORTS OF THE COUNCIL / FOR THE PROTECTION OF MEMORIES / OF WARS AND MARTY / WHO 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. In 2018, the renovation of this necropolis was carried out with funds from the Ministry. The Ministry of Culture is also conducting research work to establish a census of civilians buried in cemeteries in Central Asia. So far, despite searches conducted in various sources, it has not been possible to establish a list of those buried in the Galabulag cemetery, nor to find confirmation of the Poles' stay there in Polish censuses and publications.
Publikacja:
01.08.2022
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