The name of the Rakowicki Cemetery derives from the name of the Rakowicka street, once a country road leading to the village of Rakowice 2 km away. The necropolis is a place of burial of the ordinary citizens of the city as well as national heroes: famous writers, scientists, representatives of noble families, independence fighters, political and social activists, leaders and participants of Polish independence movements and insurrections, world wars veterans and others.
Within the cemetery, there are special sections allocated to graves of the participants of Polish national uprisings such as the November Uprising the January Uprising and the Krakow Uprising. There are victims of First World War buried there, including ethnically Polish soldiers drafted to all three imperial armies: Austrian, Russian and Prussian – most of whom died in local hospitals. There are members of Polish Legions; the participants of the Charge of Rokitna; the workers killed during strikes of 1936; the victims of the Second World War including soldiers of the Polish September Campaign of 1939. All Allied pilots shot down over Poland are buried here, including those originally buried inWarsaw, along with hundreds ofCommonwealth Of Nations casualties and prisoners of war who died during the German Occupation; the latter brought together by the BAOR into a Commonwealth plot containing a Cross Of Sacrifice, Polish partisans, the victims of the Nazi crimes; and, even the Soviet soldiers killed during their anti-German attack on Kraków in 1945.
Buried in the ground in what one would presume are two large mass graves are the bodies of the German Soldiers (both Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS) killed in WWII
Within the cemetery, there are special sections allocated to graves of the participants of Polish national uprisings such as the November Uprising the January Uprising and the Krakow Uprising. There are victims of First World War buried there, including ethnically Polish soldiers drafted to all three imperial armies: Austrian, Russian and Prussian – most of whom died in local hospitals. There are members of Polish Legions; the participants of the Charge of Rokitna; the workers killed during strikes of 1936; the victims of the Second World War including soldiers of the Polish September Campaign of 1939. All Allied pilots shot down over Poland are buried here, including those originally buried inWarsaw, along with hundreds ofCommonwealth Of Nations casualties and prisoners of war who died during the German Occupation; the latter brought together by the BAOR into a Commonwealth plot containing a Cross Of Sacrifice, Polish partisans, the victims of the Nazi crimes; and, even the Soviet soldiers killed during their anti-German attack on Kraków in 1945.
Polish War Graves
Unmarked Polish Graves
Stepping Briefly out of the War Graves section. The Graves were fascinating in this massive Cemetery , mixing both tradition, respect, lavish gravestones with some well tended to and repeatedly visited, to those in disrepair and long forgotten. The gravestones are like looking at a mournful sign to those given up, and cherished or abandoned.
The no frills graphic symbolism of the Russian Graves.
RIP
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