The cemetery in the Szpęgawski Forest is a place where Germans committed war crimes at the beginning of World War II. It is estimated that as part of the German extermination of the population in Pomerania, in the Szpęgawski Forest alone, 4,000 to 7,000 people died. people

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Concrete Forest is a Symbol-Monument commemorating the victims of the crime in the Szpęgawski Forest in 1939-1940. Trees and cut trunks made of concrete form the form of a forest. The jars of 32 trunks are engraved in black granite with the names of approx. 2.5 thousand. identified victims of the murders in the Szpęgawski Forest. One trunk was dedicated to unknown victims. You can reach this place by many forest paths, e.g. from the Zduńskie, Szpęgawskie, Rywaldzkie or Jamertal Lakes.

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