The Cemetery of the Soviet POWs in Bliżyn

Thousands of Soviet prisoners of war are buried at the cemetery, as well as prisoners from the Nazi concentration camp in Bliżyn, which was a branch of Majdanek.

The murdered were also buried in the forest, they have no marked graves. The camp for Soviet prisoners of war was organized by the Germans in the fall of 1941 on the premises of the pre-war Activated Coal Works in Bliżyn. First transport arrived by rail in mid-October. Roman Falarowski in his book "Dzieje Bliżyna" writes that selections were already made at the station. Weak and sick prisoners were immediately killed, while the rest were kept in unheated factory halls. They were forced to work as slaves in a quarry and sawmill. Deprived of appropriate clothing and food, they died en masse.