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Polish soldiers' quarters from the Polish-Bolshevik war, photo MKiDN, 2019
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Photo montrant Polish soldiers\' quarters from the Polish-Bolshevik war
Polish soldiers' quarters from the Polish-Bolshevik war, photo MKiDN, 2019
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Photo montrant Polish soldiers\' quarters from the Polish-Bolshevik war
Polish soldiers' quarters from the Polish-Bolshevik war, photo MKiDN, 2019
Licence: all rights reserved
Photo montrant Polish soldiers\' quarters from the Polish-Bolshevik war
Polish soldiers' quarters from the Polish-Bolshevik war, photo MKiDN, 2019
Licence: all rights reserved
Photo montrant Polish soldiers\' quarters from the Polish-Bolshevik war
Polish soldiers' quarters from the Polish-Bolshevik war, photo MKiDN, 2019
Licence: all rights reserved
Photo montrant Polish soldiers\' quarters from the Polish-Bolshevik war
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ID: WOJ-000201-W (BY-0926)

Polish soldiers' quarters from the Polish-Bolshevik war

Krzywicze | Belarus
biał. Krywiczy (Крывічы)
ID: WOJ-000201-W (BY-0926)

Polish soldiers' quarters from the Polish-Bolshevik war

Krzywicze | Belarus
biał. Krywiczy (Крывічы)
In the Catholic cemetery, near the entrance, there is a military quarter for Polish soldiers killed between 1918 and 1920. Initially, the graves of the fallen were scattered in different places. In 1930, the Polish war graves were consolidated by transferring the remains of soldiers exhumed from the following locations to the quarters in Krzywicze: Ciereszki, Dubonosy, Dzienisowo, Filipki, Kiryna, Kowały, Leonowo, Laskowszczyzna, Kurczyn, Nowosiółki gm. Krzywicze, Osiukowo, Puzyry, Wasilewo and Wyhotowicze. The quarters were arranged in the 20th interwar period. It contains 84 graves, arranged in even rows, and a central monument with the inscription: "TO THE HEROIC DEFENDERS OF THE HOMELAND 1918-1920". The plastic form of the monument is characteristic of the modernism of the interwar period. Most of the burials are unnamed (inscriptions commemorate 84 soldiers with unknown personalities and 25 known by name). Documents give 3 more names of soldiers who were once buried here but whose graves do not exist now. They are: Kaczona, Walmczynski and Zanek. The gravestones and central obelisk were made by the Ministry of Public Works in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The quarters survived the Second World War and the communist period, but were deteriorating without proper care. In 2017, the trees overgrowing the quarters, whose roots were destroying the gravestones, were cut down. In 2017 or 2018, the crosses and monument were inexpertly painted with white paint, the pits were 'decorated' with red paint. No salvage work was done at that time, even though the crosses and monument needed renovation. The quarters were renovated in 2019 with funding from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. Due to the significant deterioration of the tombstone material, granite replicas were made. The main monument underwent conservation.
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20.09.2022
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