Bad Harzburg

In plot No. 5 there is a row of eight graves of Second World War victims. Six of them are the burial place of Russian prisoners of war or forced labourers, while two central tombs - of Poles recorded on a list of names as forced labourers. One of them was a Home Army soldier who fought in the Warsaw Uprising. He was prisoner in Stalag XI B Fallingbostel (prisoner no. 140 282, work detail Nr. 588):

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Andrzej Wiesław

Werczyński

Lance Corporal Rifles a.k.a. "Wir"

* 26.6.1925

† 6.3.1945 Harlingerode

Plot No. 1 is the location of two individual graves of Poles, also recorded as forced labourers. One of the graves has a tombstone with the following inscription in Polish. The buried took also part in the Warsaw Uprising. He was prisoner in Stalag XI B Fallingbostel (prisoner no. 140 579, work detail Nr. 589)::

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Romuald

Borys-Lewandowski [> Lewandowski, a.k.a "Borys"]

Sergeant, Cadet Officer

of the Polish Home Army

born on 5.II.1916

died a tragic death

on 21.V.1945

Honour to His Memory