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01.03.2023

The Institute of National Remembrance paid tribute to the Cursed Soldiers

On the Cursed Soldiers National Remembrance Day, the IPN President Karol Nawrocki, Ph.D. honored the anti-communist underground heroes in Warsaw Mokotów Prison, where he opened for the public the reconstructed cell of Col. Ciepliński.

Tribute to the Cursed Soldiers — Warsaw, 1 March 2023; photo: S. Kasper (IPN)
Tribute to the Cursed Soldiers — Warsaw, 1 March 2023; photo: S. Kasper (IPN)
Tribute to the Cursed Soldiers — Warsaw, 1 March 2023; photo: S. Kasper (IPN)
Tribute to the Cursed Soldiers — Warsaw, 1 March 2023; photo: S. Kasper (IPN)
Tribute to the Cursed Soldiers — Warsaw, 1 March 2023; photo: S. Kasper (IPN)
Tribute to the Cursed Soldiers — Warsaw, 1 March 2023; photo: S. Kasper (IPN)
Tribute to the Cursed Soldiers — Warsaw, 1 March 2023; photo: S. Kasper (IPN)

The IPN President Karol Nawrocki, Ph.D. honored these brave men saying:

Long live soldiers of the anti-communist resistance from every Polish town and village who with their service, struggle, sacrifice and suffering, have today proved to all of us that they are immortal in remembrance.

 

The Cursed Soldiers were also commemorated in Lot "Ł" of Warsaw Powązki Cemetery, where many victims of communist regime are buried.

 

The IPN Deputy President Prof. Krzysztof Szwagrzyk during the event held in Lot “Ł” said:

In this place for many post-war years the remains of 320 convicts were buried in unmarked graves, among them were many Cursed Soldiers. During the communist regime era this place was deliberately covered by numerous layers of ground, asphalt and debris because the communist system wanted to erase all the traces of the murdered. 

 

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