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Żołudek cemetery

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Żołudek cemetery

Cemetery with Polish gravestone monuments. Information about the cemetery has been published (see bibliography).

According to Anna Lewkowska, Jacek Lewkowski and Wojciech Walczak, the church cemetery in Żołudek "was established on a rectangular plan and surrounded by a stone wall with a gate on the north-eastern side. The central part of the square is occupied by the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary." The Tyzenhaus family is buried in the church, and there are also two epitaph plates of the Uruski family: Hermancja of Tyzenhaus (died 1890) and Seweryn (died 1891). Two gravestones have survived in the church cemetery. The inscriptions from them read: "JÓZEF ARŁUKIEWICZ / KILLED IN THE WAR / MAY HAVE BEEN 25. PROSECTS FOR HEALING MARY" and "IN MEMORY OF KATARZYNA Z JUNDZII£ÓW / SIEKLUCKIEJ ZGASŁA / D. 2 FEBRUARY 1865. / PEACE ETERNAL / TO HER SOUL".

Lewkowski and Walczak also describe the active Catholic cemetery in Żołudek. It has a rectangular plan and covers an area of 0.3 ha. It was created in the 1st half of the 19th century, with most tombstones from the 1st half of the 20th century. The oldest, from 1863, has the inscription: "HERE LIE THE REMAINS / OF THE LATE / VINCENT JANOWSKI / PRESIDENT OF THE COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF LIDA / UM. D. MARCH 3, 1863 LIVED 68 YEARS / A STRESSED WIFE WITH CHILDREN PRAISE THE PRESENT / FOR AN ANGEL'S WELCOME FOR THE PEACE OF THE DEAD SUSPECT" The cemetery is maintained in good condition.

The aforementioned authors also report a disused Jewish cemetery, It has a roughly rectangular plan and an area of 0.45 hectares. It contains about 150 matzevot. It is maintained in good condition.

In addition, quoting the cited researchers, "at a distance of about 250 m south of the Jewish cemetery and 100 from the local asphalt road Żołudek - Orla there is a mass grave of Jews murdered during World War II. The grave is located on a flat terrain, on the plan of an inverted L letter and fenced with a metal fence with an entrance from the east side. On the axis of the entrance is situated a concrete monument on a multi-sided base with an inscription plaque in Russian, English and Hebrew. The inscription in Russian reads: "ZDJES ZAHORONIENY BOLJEJE 2000 NI W CZIOM NIE POWINNYCH JEWRJEJEW ŻJEŁUDKA I ORLI, ZWIERSKI UNICZTOZJENNYCH NIEMIECKI FASZISTAMI I ICH POSOBNIKAMI 9 MAJA 1942 GODA. WIECZNAJA PAMIAT POGIBSZIM".

Bibliography:

  • „Cmentarze polskie poza granicami kraju” , raport, oprac. B. Gutowski, Warszawa 2022 (maszynopis).
  • Lewkowska Anna, Lewkowski Jacek, Walczak Wojciech, „Zabytkowe cmentarze na Kresach Wschodnich Drugiej Rzeczypospolitej. Województwo wileńskie na obszarze Republiki Białoruś”, Warszawa 2007.

Author:

Bartłomiej Gutowski, Dawid Mendrek
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