Monument for the Residents of Piwniczna killed in WW II - Piwniczna-Zdrój, Poland
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A monument to remember the residents of Piwniczna killed in World War II
Waymark Code: WMPE7C
Location: Małopolskie, Poland
Date Posted: 08/17/2015
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member ištván
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The monument consists on a big rock on a tiny basement with a big brass plaque listing the names of the Piwniczna residents who were killed during World War II.

Translation of the Plaque:

Piwniczna residents killed in World War II

Defending soldiers in the war of 1939

[16 names]

Victims of Concentration Camps

[22 names]

Participants of the Resistance and Hostages

[23 names]

Holocaust Victims

More than 200 people of Jewish nationality

Victims NKWD (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs of the USSR) and the UB (Urzad Bezpieczenstwa = Security Office)

[6 names]

May their memory live forever

Piwniczna society in the 650-Anniversary of the City

Date of Dedication: 01/01/1998

Property Permission: Public

Location of waymark:
Rynek 17
Piwniczna-Zdrój, Małopolskie Poland
33-350

Commemoration: Residents killed in WW II

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