IVANOVO DISTRICT, 10 August (BelTA) – A memorial sign at the burial site of Polish partisans of the Tadeusz Kosciuszko unit who died during the Great Patriotic War was unveiled in Ivanovo District, BelTA has learned.
The memorial sign in the shape of a Catholic cross has been installed in the Voshchin forest near the village of Balandichi, in the frontier belt. It was here, near the state border with Ukraine, that six Polish partisans were executed by Ukrainian nationalists in 1943. The youngest was 18 years old, the oldest - 34.
The burial place was found following the interviews of local residents as part of the investigation of the criminal case into the genocide of the Belarusian people during the Great Patriotic War. Thanks to Belarusian and Polish searchers, it was possible to establish the names of the dead partisans.