Polish cemetery at Monte Cassino

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The Polish cemetery at Monte Cassino contains graves of more than one thousand Poles who died while storming the abbey in May 1944, during the Battle of Monte Cassino.

The religious affiliation of the dead men is marked by each grave having one of three different types of headstone: the Catholic and Orthodox headstones are distinguished from each other by different forms of cross, while the Jewish headstones bear Stars of David.

The cemetery also contains the grave of General Anders, commander of the Polish forces, who survived the war, dying in London in 1970.

Part of the Polish memorial at Monte Cassino bears the following inscription, which translated from Polish reads:

We Polish soldiers

For our freedom and yours

Have given our souls to God

Our bodies to the soil of Italy

And our hearts to Poland.

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Jewish gravestone at Monte Cassino	Orthodox (front)and Catholic (rear) gravestones at Monte Cassino	Gravestone of General Anders at Monte Cassino	View of Monte Cassino monastery from Polish cemetery
Polish cemetery seen from Monte Cassino monastery	Plaque at Polish cemetery in Monte Cassino