Church of St. Paraskeva, church cemetery, Radruż, Poland
In this small village on the Ukrainian border, near the Church of St. Paraskeva and its vicinity, there are three historic cemeteries. The first and oldest cemetery is located next to the church itself. In this cemetery, surrounded by a stone wall, the first wooden crosses, commonly placed on graves, have not survived. Only a few stone crosses, the crypt of the owners of Radruż, the Andrushevsky family, and, at the rear of the church, the tombstone of Katarzyna Eliaszowa Dubniewiczowa, a member of the Dubniewicz family, buried in 1682, remain. Due to the lack of space in the church cemetery for additional graves, two cemeteries were established nearby.
The older and larger cemetery (see photo), with an area of approximately 42 ares, is located behind the church on the edge of the forest. The second, smaller cemetery, with an area of approximately 14 ares, is located next to the church on a small hill. Both cemeteries feature preserved historic tombstones carved by stonemasons from Brusno. These cemeteries also house two symbolic monuments dedicated to Poles from Radruż and the surrounding area murdered by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) sotnias.
At the edge of the cemetery, near the Orthodox church, a memorial plaque is placed beneath a stone cross erected in 2012, listing the names of 25 victims murdered between 1944 and 1946. The second monument is located at the beginning of the cemetery, situated at the edge of the forest. The plaque on this monument bears the inscription: “IN MEMORY OF THE POLES BESTIALLY MURDERED BY BANDERA’S BASTARDS.”
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