In the cemetery in Bohumín-Skřečoň (Czech: Bohumín-Skřečoň) there is a mass grave of 104 victims of Polenlager No. 32, which operated between June 1942 and spring 1945 in the military barracks in Nový Bogumín. The camp in Bogumin housed mainly people from the districts of Těšín, Zywiec and Wadowice. In mid-1944, some children taken from their parents as part of the German "Oderberg" operation in the Będzin, Sosnowiec and Chrzanów districts were transferred to the camp from Bogumin to the camp in Potulice near Bydgoszcz. The total number of Poles incarcerated in this camp is unknown. According to the surviving census of deceased Poles, 42 men, 39 women and 23 children, including 14 infants under the age of one, died in the Bogumin camp. The deceased were buried in a mass grave in the Bogumín-Skrzeczon cemetery. The grave is located at the eastern wall of the cemetery, to the right of the entrance and the cemetery chapel. It features a monument of three granite blocks in the shape of cuboids, unveiled on 20 April 1969, which is the work of architect Bronisław Firla. In 2004, on the initiative of the Bogumín branch of the Polish Cultural and Educational Association, which cares for the grave, two plaques were added to the memorial: a Polish one with the inscription "104 Poles - victims of fascism tormented in the "Polenlager: No. 32 in Nový Bogumín 1942-1945" and a Czech one with a similar text. Between 1942 and 1945, the authorities of the German province of Upper Silesia set up dozens of camps, the so-called "Polenlager", for the Polish population of Upper Silesia, the Dąbrowa Basin, Cieszyn Silesia and the Żywiec region. The camps housed entire families deprived of their property as part of the deportation of the Polish population, as well as Poles who refused to sign the German nationality list, those arrested for having relatives involved in the resistance movement, and unaccompanied children. The administration of these camps was entrusted to the German National Mediation Office (Hauptamt Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle), whose main task was to organise the settlement of ethnically German populations from, among others, Bukovina, Dobrudja, Bessarabia and Eastern Europe, who were settled on farms forcibly abandoned by Poles. The Polenlagers were subjected to a strict camp regime, hunger, oppression and harsh living conditions. Inmates were sent to forced labour both inside and outside the camp. Prisoners were transferred to other camps, sent to forced labour in the German Reich, but sometimes also released.