Your personal bike guide
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Your personal bike guide
On the 3 Maja street in Truskaw there is a formally modest monument in the shape of a simple cross. It is surrounded by a metal fence with a repeating cross theme. Flowers have been planted inside and sometimes there are lights burning in front of the monument. As the plaque attached to the monument says, it commemorates a brutal execution committed by the Germans on the residents of Truskaw in 1943 depriving 10 people of their lives. The unholy murder – the victims also included children – took place on 18th November. The Hitlerian gendarmerie shot Feliks Kielak, Henryk Pamięta and Ignacy Właziński. Franciszek Gromadka with his grandson and Michał Rurka with his wife and two children were burned alive. It is also worth noting that a year later the tables turned and in the very Truskaw, on a September night, a unit of the Home Army led by Adolf Pilch (aka “Dolina”) dealt with the locally stationing units of RONA (Russkaja Oswoboditielnaja Narodnaja Armia), famous for their brutality. During the engagement, 250 out of 1000 enemy soldiers were killed, while the 80-people Home Army unit lost 10 soldiers. In the vicinity, at the corner of the 3 Maja, Skibińskiego and Falińskiego streets, there is also a monument dedicated to all the civilian casualties of the Second World War from Truskaw as well as soldiers of the “Kampinos” group of the Home Army and of Diversion.
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