War cemetery in Koło

Koło Military Cemetery or Koło War Cemetery (Polish - Cmentarz wojenny w Kole, Russian) is a military cemetery located on the Przemieście Warszawskie housing estate in Koło, Poland. It includes the graves of Polish airman killed in the invasion of Poland in September 1939 and Soviet troops killed liberating the town in January 1945. In 1997 the bodies of thirteen Soviet troops exhumed at Słupca were also buried here. In 2011 a mass grave of ninety German soldiers also killed in the fighting in 1945 was discovered within the cemetery. Surviving 19th century tombstones in the cemetery probably belong to Orthodox Christian inhabitants buried there, whilst after the Second World War the town's surviving Jewish inhabitants were buried there. It is often in poor repair and home to street drinkers. Since 2014 local activists have been cleaning up the cemetery. In 2020 the Moldovan ambassador to Poland Iurie Bodrug visited the cemetery. On 30 June 2024 it was badly damaged by a storm which passed through the area.

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