Photo expedition to Mjadzjel District: Charemshytsy, Zas’vir, Kurkuli, Varashylki, Kanstantsinava, Vjentsavichy, Kalodna, Narach (Kabyl’nik).
Фотавандроўка па Мядзельскім раёне: Чарэмшыцы, Засьвір, Куркулі, Варашылкі, Канстанцінава, Венцавічы, Калодна, Нарач (Кабыльнік).
World War I cemeteries (part XIX): Zas’vir 2018. German war cemetery behind the Roman Catholic church and former Carmelite monastery. This cemetery holds the remains of soldiers who died while in the field hospital the Germans set up in the former monastery.
After World War I the German War Graves Commission (Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge — “Volksbund”) paid the government of the Second Polish Republic to look after German war cemeteries on Polish territory, which between 1921 and September 1939 included the western Belarusian lands. The Poles undertook careful exhumations and where necessary reburied soldiers’ remains under new tombstones in more than 150 German cemeteries in the Belarusian lands.
In some cases, although not here, the remains were those of soldiers from the Russian imperial army; the Poles treated those remains with equal respect. During the interwar period, the Soviet regime showed no interest in honoring Russian imperial army graves. After occupying the western Belarusian lands when it invaded Poland in September 1939 together with Nazi Germany, the Soviet regime neglected all World War I cemeteries. Since the collapse of the Soviet empire, the Volksbund has again been active in helping put some German World War I cemeteries in Belarus in order, as here.
Могілкі Першай сусьветнай вайны (частка XIX): нямецкія могілкі на пагосьце ў касьцёла Сьв. Тройцы, Засьвір 2018 г.
