War cemetery from 1914
War cemetery from 1914
On the outskirts of the town of police , in the Zwoleń poviat, there is a war cemetery from World War I , which is one of the most important memorial places about the fighting fights in this area in this area in October 1914. Austro-Hungarian army and young Polish volunteers known as "Krakow children-Staszki" who died 23 and 24 October 1914 during fierce battles with the Russian army, conducted as part of the so-called Operation Dęblińska .
On the memorial board placed on the spot, there is the inscription:
Here they rest
soldiers of the first Austro-Hungarian Army
fell during the First World War
during the battle 23./24. October 1914
HERE 1200 Austro-Hungarian soldiers
and 150 Polish soldiers
part of their memory
Historical and symbolic role
cemetery is testimony of the victim suffered by young generations of Poles and Austria-Hungary in the dramatic circumstances of World War I. Today, it is a symbol of the memory of thousands of nameless soldiers who gave their lives away from their homeland, fighting in the hope of free Poland.
