The Buczyna Forest
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The Buczyna Forest was a place of executions carried out by German occupiers. There are mass graves, and it is the largest burial site of the victims of the Holocaust in the then occupied Poland. Since 2002, the inauguration of the Days of Memory of the Galician Jews. In 1948, at the crime site there was erected a monument designed by Tadeusz Max. It is an obelisk adorned with a grave lantern. There are swords carved out in stone on each side of the monument and an inscription: “Glory to the Victims of Hitler’s Terror”. There were also marked symbolic shapes of six mass graves. They were commemorated by little gravestones and memorials.
Click to listen highlighted text! The Buczyna Forest was a place of executions carried out by German occupiers. There are mass graves, and it is the largest burial site of the victims of the Holocaust in the then occupied Poland. Since 2002, the inauguration of the Days of Memory of the Galician Jews. In 1948, at the crime site there was erected a monument designed by Tadeusz Max. It is an obelisk adorned with a grave lantern. There are swords carved out in stone on each side of the monument and an inscription: “Glory to the Victims of Hitler’s Terror”. There were also marked symbolic shapes of six mass graves. They were commemorated by little gravestones and memorials.The Buczyna Forest was a place of executions carried out by German occupiers. There are mass graves, and it is the largest burial site of the victims of the Holocaust in the then occupied Poland. Since 2002, the inauguration of the Days of Memory of the Galician Jews. In 1948, at the crime site there was erected a monument designed by Tadeusz Max. It is an obelisk adorned with a grave lantern. There are swords carved out in stone on each side of the monument and an inscription: “Glory to the Victims of Hitler’s Terror”. There were also marked symbolic shapes of six mass graves. They were commemorated by little gravestones and memorials.