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evaanna Says: The people buried at Palmiry were mostly representatives of the Polish inteligentsia who the Nazis considered to be the most dangerous as potential leaders of resistance movement and wanted to annihilate first. Thus, here lie priests, teachers, some Polish political leaders,...
evaanna Says: I hope that by the time you get to visit the Cemetery in Palmiry there will be no signs of vandalism that we could see, particularly revolting and poignant in this place of martyrdom. But when we were there, many of the nameplates were missing from the crosses and headstones...
evaanna Says: The executions carried out by the Nazis in the Palmiry forest in the years 1939 -1941 were the Nazis' top secret. The victims were brought here from Pawiak and other Warsaw prisons and shot on the spot. They fell straight into specially prepared ditches, which were later...
alancollins Says: The cemetery is the resting place of 2,200 victims of the Nazis who were executed here and in other forests. The rows of crosses in the forest's midst leave a long lasting and moving impression. Among them are Polish Olympic champion Janusz Kusocinski and Speaker of the...
alancollins Says: If you look at the photograph you will see there is a picture of the victim which has replaced the nameplate. The cross to the left shows a lighter coloured area where a nameplate was. There were brass name plates on the headstones but these were stolen for their scrap metal...
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If you look at the photograph you will see there is a picture of the victim which has replaced the nameplate. The cross to the left shows a lighter coloured...
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Palmiry is a small village in the Kampinoski National Park 28 km north of Warsaw. Hidden in the forest nearby is the cemetery of 2115 victims of Nazi murders committed here from December 1939 to July...
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The Cemetery contains the bodies of 2,200 people who were murdered by the Nazis during the Second World War.
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