Kobierzyn-Czerwone Maki Cemetery
Kraków Cemeteries
A small cemetery (Dębniki district) founded probably in 1917 next to the former psychiatric hospital in Kobierzyn. In plot II a grave commemorates about a hundred patients killed by the Germans in an execution in 1942. The oldest dated grave, from 1921, belongs to Maria Juchniewiczowa, the sister of Józef Piłsudski. The hospital's directors, doctors, nurses and patients rest here too. Today the cemetery covers 1.27 hectares and serves as a municipal one. It is a place of particular remembrance.
History
The cemetery on Czerwone Maki Street in the Dębniki district, covering 1.27 ha, was probably founded in 1917 next to what was then the Psychiatric Institution. Buried here are the institution's directors, including Juliusz Morawski, as well as doctors, nurses and patients. In section II stands a grave commemorating around 100 patients who were killed by the German occupiers in an execution in 1942. Today it serves as a municipal cemetery, and the grave of the execution victims remains a place of special remembrance.
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The oldest dated grave is from 1921. It belongs to Maria Juchniewiczowa, the sister of Józef Piłsudski.