Roman Catholic Parish Cemetery in Nieporęt

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The parish cemetery in Nieporęt, dating back to at least the 18th century, preserves the memory of the municipality’s residents and history. The oldest part of the cemetery lies on a small hill known as the “górka”. Nineteenth-century graves and a mission cross from 1906 have survived here. The cemetery was entered in the register of historic monuments in 1993.

Those commemorated here include soldiers who died during the Second World War. There is the grave of a Polish Army soldier killed in September 1939 and the mass grave of Home Army soldiers executed by the Germans on 19 August 1944. Among those buried there are the brothers Adam and Tadeusz Grocholski and Second Lieutenant Władysław Danielewicz, codename “Oko”.

The cemetery is also the resting place of Bronisław Tokaj – teacher, social activist and commander of the Nieporęt Home Army battalion – and of Anna Soszyńska, a nurse and community activist who cared for local residents for many years and helped deliver babies.

Look out for sections of the wall built from bricks made at the 19th-century Nieporęt Brickworks. The cemetery holds not only historic gravestones and traces of local craftsmanship but, above all, the memory of the people who shaped the history of Nieporęt.