By virtue of the Sikorski-Mayski Agreement, the formation of the Polish Armed Forces (General Anders Army) began in the USSR. Eventually, places for the formation of military units were designated in the Soviet Central Asian republics. There was also a massive influx of civilians to these locations. In Guzar, Uzbekistan, an Army Organising Centre, a Women's Auxiliary Service Reserve Centre, a field hospital, a typhoid quarantine camp, and in nearby Karkin Batash, a School for Junior Volunteers and an orphanage were located. Among both soldiers and civilians, many died, mainly from exhaustion and disease. Burials were made in a specially established Polish cemetery in Guzar. The Guzar war cemetery is the largest Polish necropolis in Uzbekistan. Its area is 5520 m2. It survived the Soviet era, although only the outlines of some 550 graves remain. When a delegation of the Council for the Protection of Remembrance of Struggle and Martyrdom visited the cemetery for the first time in 1994, the area was surrounded by a metal fence, while in the central part stood an obelisk with a marble plaque with a star and an inscription in Russian that read: "1941 1945 To the memory of deceased Polish friends during the years of the Great Patriotic War". In 1998, the Kashkadarya wilayet authorities added a second plaque with a cross and the following bilingual Uzbek-English inscription: "Polish friends are buried here". The gate leading to the cemetery was topped with an additional metal cross". This cemetery was rebuilt by the OPWiM Council in 2001. The rows of graves were framed by kerbs and concrete slabs with a relief of a cross were placed at their ends. A memorial has been erected on the axis of the entrance, while plaques with the alphabetically listed names of 660 female soldiers, volunteers and juniors have been placed along the approach to it. The monument is in the shape of a milepost with a characteristic rectangular shape, uniform for all rebuilt cemeteries in Central Asia, topped by an eagle bas-relief. The monument bears an inscription in Polish and Uzbek: "TU SPOCZYWAJĄ POLACY / 663 SOLDIERS / OF THE POLISH ARMY / IN THE EAST / GEN. WŁ. ANDERS / AND CIVILIANS / FORMER PRISONERS OF WAR / PRISONERS / OF SOVIET CAMPS / WHO DIED IN 1942. / ON THEIR WAY TO THEIR HOMELAND / HONOUR THEIR MEMORY". The commemorations previously displayed here were preserved and moved to a new location near the entrance. The fence was also renovated at that time. An additional obelisk was later erected in the cemetery with a stylised eagle-shaped plaque of thanksgiving founded in 2002 by those refugees who managed to survive deportation and wandering. The inscription on the plaque is in two languages - Polish and Uzbek: "TO THE LORD GOD IN THE HOLY TRINITY / THE ONE AND ONLY AND THE MOST HOLY MOTHER / WITH GRATITUDE FOR THE MIRACLE OF RESCUE / FROM THE HOUSE OF SLAVERY / RESCUED BY THE ARMY OF GENERAL / W. ANDERS CHILDREN FROM POLISH FAMILIES / DEPORTED IN 1940-1941 / INTO THE DEPTHS OF THE SOVIET UNION / 1942-2002". In 2008, the name of Private Leon Ostrowski, whose family sent the OPWiM Council a death certificate issued by the Command of the Polish Army in the East, was added to the plaques. On 14 April 2007, a ceremony was held at the cemetery in Guzar to open and consecrate the cemetery and symbolically the other necropolises rebuilt by the OPWiM Council in 2001 on the territory of Uzbekistan. It was attended by representatives of the Polish authorities, central and local Uzbek authorities, the Polish community, and the families of those soldiers who found a resting place here. The concelebrated Mass was celebrated by the Field Bishop of the Polish Army, Major General Tadeusz Ploski, together with the Apostolic Administrator in Uzbekistan, Bishop Jerzy Maculewicz. In 2014. The OPWiM Council replaced the name plaques in order to make them more legible (the inscription was corrected on this occasion), while in 2016 the same institution carried out renovation work on the cemetery. Following the liquidation of the OPWiM Council, the care of the cemetery is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage is also conducting research work to establish a census of civilians buried in cemeteries in Central Asia. In 2017. The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage replaced the information plaques at the entrance (two plaques - in Polish and Uzbek). The Polish content is as follows: "POLISH / WAR CEMETERY / GUZAR / UNDER THE CARE / OF THE / MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND HERITAGE / NATIONAL / HERITAGE / RECONSTRUCTED IN 2001 / WITH THE EFFORTS OF THE COUNCIL FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE MEMORY / OF FIGHTS AND MARTYRDOM".