The Place of execution of Home Army soldiers from the 3rd Nieporęt Battalion in Nieporęt Forest
The place of execution by firing squad
of eight Home Army soldiers on 19 August
1944. Here, there is a cross with a concrete
foundation, which bears the inscription:
In this place, the Home Army soldiers were
killed by the Nazis in 1944.
On August 19, 1944, at the German commando unit, made up of the Gestapo and the police, arrested the soldiers from the third Home Army battalion in Nieporęt on the basis of a list. After many hours of hearings in the church or school buildings, according to some witness accounts, on the basis of the sentence pronounced by the occupying German authorities, the soldiers were sentenced to execution by firing squad. While escorting them to the truck, one of the prisoners tried to escape, but was shot before he managed to enter the forest. The attempt to save the condemned man by his family living in Nieporęt failed. The other condemned men were subsequently taken to the forest in Nieporęt and executed by firing squad near the existing clearing. They were then buried in a mass grave. The murdered soldiers were: Andrzej Marek Popp 17 years, Jan Rembelski 47 years, Mieczysław Kozak 17 years, Bronislaw Stolarczyk 39 years, Adam Grocholski 19 years, Tadeusz Grocholski 22 years, Władysław Danielewicz 38 years and Stefan Szyperek 27 years.
The place of their burial was discovered by one of the residents of Nieporęt, after searching the area, based on the apparent hollow in the ground. The bodies were exhumed in 1945 and laid to rest in the parish cemetery in Nieporęt. The execution site was commemorated with a cross, though the original execution site had to be moved due to a pipeline which currently exists there.
On August 19, 1944, at the German commando unit, made up of the Gestapo and the police, arrested the soldiers from the third Home Army battalion in Nieporęt on the basis of a list. After many hours of hearings in the church or school buildings, according to some witness accounts, on the basis of the sentence pronounced by the occupying German authorities, the soldiers were sentenced to execution by firing squad. While escorting them to the truck, one of the prisoners tried to escape, but was shot before he managed to enter the forest. The attempt to save the condemned man by his family living in Nieporęt failed. The other condemned men were subsequently taken to the forest in Nieporęt and executed by firing squad near the existing clearing. They were then buried in a mass grave. The murdered soldiers were: Andrzej Marek Popp 17 years, Jan Rembelski 47 years, Mieczysław Kozak 17 years, Bronislaw Stolarczyk 39 years, Adam Grocholski 19 years, Tadeusz Grocholski 22 years, Władysław Danielewicz 38 years and Stefan Szyperek 27 years.
The place of their burial was discovered by one of the residents of Nieporęt, after searching the area, based on the apparent hollow in the ground. The bodies were exhumed in 1945 and laid to rest in the parish cemetery in Nieporęt. The execution site was commemorated with a cross, though the original execution site had to be moved due to a pipeline which currently exists there.