Two Polish graves from World War II in the local cemetery, photo MKiDN, 2023
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Two Polish graves from World War II in the local cemetery

ID: WOJ-000598-W/135517 (SK-0096)

Two Polish graves from World War II in the local cemetery

In Obid (Hungarian: Ebed), annexed by Hungary in 1938, a camp was set up for interned Polish civilian and military refugees who had crossed the Hungarian border after the outbreak of the Second World War. They lived in the former border guard barracks. A small number of the internees were employed and housed with local farmers.
Two Polish graves have been preserved in the local cemetery - that of st const. Stanislaw Mitek of the State Police, who died on 22.05.1943, and the infant Krystyna Jadwiga Melnychenko, who died on 5.04.1944. Stanisław Mitek served in the police force in the village of Turka, Lviv Province. His family, who remained in Turka after the Soviet invasion of Poland, were deported in April 1940 to Kazakhstan, from which they returned after the war. It was not until around 2000 that they managed to find Stanislaw's grave, on which stood a white marble cross funded by his interned colleagues with the following inscription: "The late / Mitek Stanislaw / platoon sergeant of the state police / died on 22 May 1943 / lived 46 years". This cross has been preserved in very good condition and, after it had been cleaned, the gravestone was completed with a horizontal black panel with the text: "Here you rest / in us you survive / Father / children Henry and George / grandchildren Ewa, Jaroslaw, Ilona / and great-grandchildren". The neighbouring tomb of the infant is more modest - it is an earth grave with a metal cross on which is placed a tin plate with an engraved inscription (ŚP / Krystyna Jadwiga / Melnyczenko / 25.12.1943 - 5.4.1944) and a statue of Christ Crucified (now incomplete).

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13.09.2023
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Two Polish graves from World War II in the local cemetery
Two Polish graves from World War II in the local cemetery, photo MKiDN, 2023

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