Razing the Home Army headquarters in Mikuliszki in the Grodno region
Headquarters of the Home Army soldiers who died in 1944 in Mikuliszki, Belarus, Photo Marek Zaniewski / Facebook
In Mikuliszki, in the Grodno region of Belarus, the headquarters of the Home Army soldiers were razed to the ground, the remaining ones in 1944, the website of the Polish community “Głos znad Niemna” was reported. None of the 22 crosses standing at this memorial site remain. “To the barbarism with feedback that is contrary to the Belarusian tradition.
On the ground, photos of places by “Głos znad Niemna” on Monday, you can see that there is only an empty place in the quarters, with an even surface. Previously, there were rows of crosses and a stone, also with a built-in cross, and a plaque with the inscription: “To the soldiers of the 3rd and 6th Brigades of the Home Army of the Vilnius District who died in 1944”.
❗️A barbaric act of state vandalism against the graves of Home Army soldiers in Belarus❗️ As Marek Zaniewski, vice president of the Union of Poles in Belarus informed, the Home Army soldiers’ quarters in Mikuliszki were razed to the ground! This must meet with a firm reaction from the Polish authorities. pic.twitter.com/nf1jf0aljP
– Robert Tyszkiewicz (@RTyszkiewicz) July 4, 2022
Home Army soldiers were buried in Mikuliszki both before and after the Operation Code-named Ostra Brama, and then the uprising of Vilnius by the Germans took place. The name of the common cross of the law was first names and users.
On January 18, 1944, the soldiers of the 3rd and 6th Home Army Brigades died in Mikuliszki on January 8, 1944. A soldier of the 3rd Brigade of the Home Army who died in Czarny Bór on March 7, 1944 and a soldier killed in Negroes in March 1944 were also buried in this place. two graves of the soldiers of the 6th Brigade of the Home Army who died in Vilnius on July 9, 1944 in the village of Kamionka.
According to “Głos znad Niemna”, the NKVD premises in 1945 of Aleksander Stankiewicz and Antoni Piotrkowicz from Mikuliszki are available below. To one also destruction, destruction.
The place in the history of the youth of the 20th century until recently was established in the 1990s, under the control of efforts to protect the memory of the Struggle and Martyrdom. A resident of Mikuliszek Józefa Pietkiewicz resides for a long time, and later – activists of the Union of Poles in Belarus from Grodno – “Głos znad Niemna”.
“This, of course, is barbarism over historical memory, the choice is contrary to the Belarusian tradition, because Belarusians always take care of the burial. This is an act of Lukashenka’s policy to save memory and descendants, to show what belongs to the Polish nation– Patushka told reporters.
He stated that one can never come to terms with such acts of barbarism, and the Polish nation is a friend of Belarusians. (MUSH)
author: Karol Kostrzewa
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