Cmentarz Wojenny, Grudziądz

War Cemetery in Grudziadz - a disused cemetery in the vicinity of the Grudziadz citadel, on 18th Regiment of Pomeranian Lancers Street.

The cemetery was established in 1923 on initiative of priest Wladyslaw Lega, who was a parish priest at that time. In the interwar years soldiers from Grudzi±dz garrison and members of their families were buried on the cemetery. From that period 285 graves with identical crosses survived. During fights in 1945 the cemetery was hit by artillery shells, some of the tombstones were destroyed.

Soon after the war the remains of Allied prisoners of war kept by the Germans in a nearby citadel and German soldiers were buried in a mass grave. In the northern part of the cemetery at least 754 soldiers of the Soviet Army were buried, most of them died in local hospitals. In 1945 an obelisk with a commemorative plaque was set up in the section with the graves of Soviet soldiers. In 1993 the Monument of Gratitude, previously standing on Wolnosci Square in Grudziadz, was moved to the cemetery.