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Museum - Memorial Site in the Szpęgawski Forest ("Concrete Forest")

Las Szpęgawski, gmina Starogard Gdański, powiat starogardzki, woj. pomorskie

  • Monuments & Culture
  • Memorial Sites

Memorial Site in the Szpęgawski Forest

The cemetery-monument in the Szpęgawski Forest commemorates the victims of crimes committed by the Germans at the beginning of the Second World War (1939-1940). On the grounds there is an installation called the "Concrete Forest" - concrete trees engraved with the names of thousands of identified victims. The forest was a site of mass executions of the Polish population and of patients from the psychiatric hospital in Kocborowo.

Practical information

Scope

  • Cemetery-monument to the victims of the 1939-1940 crimes
  • "Concrete Forest" installation with the names of victims

Getting there

Szpęgawski Forest, Starogard Gdański municipality, Starogard County.

Sposób dojazdu

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Source: https://www.komoot.com/guide/2630846/attractions-around-tczew; https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn632620