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The reburial ceremony of Soviet soldiers, who died in one of the largest prisoners of war camps in Poland, took place in Warsaw. The remains of fourteen people were buried at the memorial cemetery, RIA Novosti reported. More than twenty thousand soldiers and officers who liberated the Polish capital in January 1945 are buried at the military memorial cemetery on Zhvirka and Vigura streets.
The remains of the Red Army were discovered almost by accident during a study of the cemetery in Modlin Fortress. It is located near the city of Nowy Dwor Mazowiecki.
According to the representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense Alexey Fomichev, this burial was not listed in any registry. After the exhumation, it was decided to rebury the remains in Warsaw. This step was agreed with Russia. All the prisoners of war were buried in individual graves. It was possible to establish that these were ordinary soldiers who were captured at the beginning of the war.
All of them died no later than 1942. The eldest of them is 1900, and the youngest is born in 1915.
Work in the archives made it possible to find relatives of eight out of fourteen people. One of the relatives arrived at the burial ceremony. He was accompanied by Russian diplomats, representatives of the Red Cross. A funeral service in the Orthodox rite was served at the cemetery.
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