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location of memorial sites in the Poniatowa Municipality

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We invite you to visit the memorial sites according to our guide entitled The Trail of National Monuments in the Poniatowa Municipality (Szlakiem pomników pamięci narodowej w Gminie Poniatowa). The publication in Polish is available in full on the following pages of this website [see: read more]. You can also download it as a pdf file, using the button located under the list of objects.

Below is a list of memorial sites and a detailed map where they are numbered and arranged in the same order they appear in the publication. By clicking on the order number assigned to each of the objects, the appropriate page of the publication Trail of National Monuments in the Poniatowa Municipality will open. After pressing the descriptive name of the monument, grave or cemetery, we will move to the subpage of our website appropriate for a given place – the catalogue of places of remembrance in the Poniatowa Municipality:

  memorial in tribute to the thousands victims murdered by the Nazi invaders in the labor camp in Poniatowa 1941-1944 – Poniatowa;

   memorial of 14,000 Jews, citizens of Poland, Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, prisoners of the German labor camp in Poniatowa murdered by the Germans in a mass execution "Erntefest" ("Harvest Festival") on November 4, 1943 – Poniatowa;

   memorial of The Nazis victims murdered in Poniatowa in 1941-1944 – Poniatowa;

   memorial of 22,892 Nazism victims, murdered in the Poniatowa labor camp between 1941 and 1944 – Poniatowa;

   monument to the memory of the heroes of the January Uprising – Poniatowa, communal cemetery;

   war cemetery for the soldiers of various nationalities who fought in the Austro-Hungarian and Russian armies and died in 1914u – forest near the village of Darowne;

  mass grave of World War I soldiers who died in 1914–1915 – Leśniczówka;

  insurgent grave dedicated to the heroes killed in 1831 in the struggle for independence – Kraczewice;

   I mass grave in memory of Polish Home Army soldiers fallen between 1939-1946 – Kraczewice, parish cemetery;

   II mass grave in memory of Polish Home Army soldiers fallen between 1939-1946 – Kraczewice, parish cemetery;

   cemetery of German soldiers who died during World War I in July 1915 – Szczuczki Kolonia;

   monument to the Indomitable Soldiers of Freedom and Independence (WiN) Puławy District who died in battle with the Security Office (UB) and the Internal Security Corps (KBW) on February 17, 1947 – Niezabitów;

  nameless grave of the World War II soldier – Obliźniak;

  roadside shrine in honor of those who fought for Poland's freedom and independence 1939-1945 – Niezabitów Kolonia;

  memorial monument to the Soviet POWs (prisoners of war) murdered on their way to the camp by the Nazi executioners in Poniatowa on November 1, 1941 – Niezabitów Kolonia.

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