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Polish Cemetery at Monte Cassino

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The Polish Cemetery at Monte Cassino holds the graves of over a thousand Poles who died, storming the bombed-out Benedictine abbey atop the mountain in May 1944, during the Battle of Monte Cassino.

Polish military cemetery at Monte Cassino - Cmentarz wojskowy na Monte Cassino

The religious affiliations of the deceased are indicated by three types of headstone: the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox headstones feature different forms of the Christian cross, and the Jewish headstones bear the Star of David.

The cemetery also holds the grave of General Władysław Anders, who had commanded the Polish forces that captured Monte Cassino. Anders died in London in 1970.

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The Polish Cemetery at Monte Cassino holds the graves of over a thousand Poles who died, storming the bombed-out Benedictine abbey atop the mountain in May 1944, during the Battle of Monte Cassino.

The religious affiliations of the deceased are indicated by three types of headstone: the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox headstones feature different forms of the Christian cross, and the Jewish headstones bear the Star of David.

The cemetery also holds the grave of General Władysław Anders, who had commanded the Polish forces that captured Monte Cassino. Anders died in London in 1970.

The Polish memorial at Monte Cassino bears the following two inscriptions

The first, based on the Epitaph of Simonides, reads:

Passer-by, go tell Poland

That we have perished obedient to her service

The other translates from Polish:

For our freedom and yours

We soldiers of Poland

Gave

Our soul to God

Our life to the soil of Italy

Our hearts to Poland

An anthem, The Red Poppies on Monte Cassino — composed on the eve of the Polish storming of the German stronghold — memorializes the Polish soldiers who gave their lives. The refrain is familiar to all Poles:

The red poppies on Monte Cassino

Drank Polish blood instead of dew...

O'er the poppies the soldiers did go

'Mid death, and to their anger stayed true!

Years will come and ages will go,

Enshrining their strivings and their toil!...

And the poppies on Monte Cassino

Will be redder for Poles' blood in their soil.

 

Sources: wikipedia.org

15.03.1944 | Kampania włoska: rozpoczęła się trzecia bitwa o Monte Cassino.

15 marca (operacja „Dickens”) rozpoczęło się trzecie, najbardziej krwawe z dotychczasowych, natarcie tymi samymi siłami, poprzedzone bombardowaniem: w ciągu trzech i pół godziny 575 ciężkich i średnich bombowców oraz 200 myśliwców bombardujących zrzuciło na miasto i okolice blisko 1100 ton bomb, a artyleria wystrzeliła ponad 10 000 pocisków. Po tym przygotowaniu ogniowym, w trakcie którego Cassino zostało zrównane z ziemią, na pozycje niemieckie uderzyły ponownie trzy dywizje: 4. hinduska (trzy brygady piechoty), 2. nowozelandzka (również trzy brygady) i 78. brytyjska (dwie brygady piechoty i brygada pancerna).

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11.05.1944 | Kampania włoska: rozpoczęło się czwarte, ostateczne natarcie podczas bitwy o Monte Cassino

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18.05.1944 | Virs Montekasino tiek pacelts poļu karogs. Tiek atvērts Sabiedroto ceļš uz Romu

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01.09.1945 | Otwarto Polski Cmentarz Wojenny na Monte Cassino

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