Cmentarz katolicki św. Wojciecha

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Roman Catholic cemetery of St. Wojciecha w Łodzi - a cemetery located in the southern part of Łódź, at 81 Kurczaki St. - popularly called the cemetery on Kurczak. [source: Wikipedia, 2051765]

History

The cemetery was founded at the beginning of the 20th century. The oldest tombstone of this necropolis dates back to 1906, but the inscription on it is illegible. Initially, a few dead were buried here (less than a hundred a year), above all the poor from Chojen. At the main avenue of the cemetery there is a collective grave of soldiers who died in 1939. During World War II, from June 1, 1942 to the end of the German occupation in Łódź (January 19, 1945), it was intended exclusively for the burials of Poles. Next to the cemetery at ul. Rzgowska was one of the two burial places of Poles who died in Łódź. In this period, over 17,000 people were buried here. people, including Maria Wedmanowa, member of the PPR, trampled by the Łódź Gestapo. Also prisoners who died in the prison in Radogoszcz in Łódź were buried here. On the main avenue of the cemetery there is a magnificent - according to the Romani tradition - the tomb of the King of Gypsies, Kwiek Bango, from the 1960s. Most burials in this cemetery began to be recorded from the mid-1970s, after the construction of a large housing estate in this area. File: Kwiek Bangos tomb, cemetery at Kurczaki st., Łódź, 001.jpg [source: Wikipedia, 2051765]

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