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Lwów Eagles (Polish Orlęta lwowskie) is the term applied to child soldiers who volunteered to defend the city of Lwów during the Polish-Ukrainian War of 1918-1919.
Originally the term was applied exclusively to young volunteers who participated in the defense of Lwów during the siege laid upon the city by Ukrainian army between November 1 and November 22, 1918. However, with time the term was broadened and currently it is also applied to all youth soldiers who fought in defence of Poland in the Polish-Ukrainian War and Polish-Bolshevik War. Apart from the defenders of Lwów, the young defenders of Przemyśl are also frequently nick-named the Orlęta.
After the Polish-Ukrainian conflict the Lwów Eagles were buried in the Cemetery of the Defenders of Lwów, part of the Lyczakowski Cemetery. The mausoleum contained the ashes of both children and adults who fought against the Ukrainian attack, including foreign volunteers from France and the United States. The project of the mausoleum was prepared by Rudolf Indruch, a student at the institute of architecture and an Eagle himself. Among the most notable Eagles to be buried there was 14 years old Jurek Bitschan, the youngest of the defenders of the city whose name became an icon of the Polish culture in the interbellum.
After the annexation of Lwów by the Soviet Union, in 1917, their graves were destroyed and the mausoleum was turned into a magazine and truck depot. Currently it is being restored.
belive me...when i realized that i am standing in the middle of big plain of children graves <15 16 years old ...> i was totally moved because i realized that....all of them were fighting, no retreat, no surrender....
Originally the term was applied exclusively to young volunteers who participated in the defense of Lwów during the siege laid upon the city by Ukrainian army between November 1 and November 22, 1918. However, with time the term was broadened and currently it is also applied to all youth soldiers who fought in defence of Poland in the Polish-Ukrainian War and Polish-Bolshevik War. Apart from the defenders of Lwów, the young defenders of Przemyśl are also frequently nick-named the Orlęta.
After the Polish-Ukrainian conflict the Lwów Eagles were buried in the Cemetery of the Defenders of Lwów, part of the Lyczakowski Cemetery. The mausoleum contained the ashes of both children and adults who fought against the Ukrainian attack, including foreign volunteers from France and the United States. The project of the mausoleum was prepared by Rudolf Indruch, a student at the institute of architecture and an Eagle himself. Among the most notable Eagles to be buried there was 14 years old Jurek Bitschan, the youngest of the defenders of the city whose name became an icon of the Polish culture in the interbellum.
After the annexation of Lwów by the Soviet Union, in 1917, their graves were destroyed and the mausoleum was turned into a magazine and truck depot. Currently it is being restored.
belive me...when i realized that i am standing in the middle of big plain of children graves <15 16 years old ...> i was totally moved because i realized that....all of them were fighting, no retreat, no surrender....
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Wow, that is a moving place which you had photographed, and I am sure it would be hard not to get emotional seeing such a place. Knowing that folks as long as 14/15 were doing stuff that most adults could not do out of their love for their country really shows the strength of a country.
Is the place you had photographed now in Poland, or is it in Ukraine or Russia as a result of Poland's changed boundaries after the Second World War?
It is good to see that the burial ground of those defenders has been restored as it looks a lot like Arlington Cemetery in Virginia.
Is the place you had photographed now in Poland, or is it in Ukraine or Russia as a result of Poland's changed boundaries after the Second World War?
It is good to see that the burial ground of those defenders has been restored as it looks a lot like Arlington Cemetery in Virginia.
Well thats a very delicate thing. Lviv was polish city for over 500 years but now after second world war it belongs to the ukraine. You may be sure of that ukrainian goverment dont want to keep that graveyard...they are rather interested in removeing it from a map but they are not interested in removeing it by force...they stopped giveing money for that. but in Lviv many polish people live who keep those place with their own money
That is really nice that the Polish people keep the Lviv graveyard around as it clearly looks like the area is very well managed and the folks who are buried there have a nice final resting place.
I know the borders in your neck of the woods have shifted a lot, and it is too bad that the Soviet Union took away Lviv from Poland as I am sure Stalin wanted revenge after being defeated by the Polish in the Bolsevik-Polish war.
It really is shameful that the Ukrainian Government gives no money for upkeeping the cemetary especially because of its history. Even Russia has done something with Katyn Forest, and surely Ukraine can at least provide the area you had pictured with upkeep? It is good that there are people watching over that place as I am sure it is sacred, and it is amazing it survived the Soviet period as I had heard of stories of the Soviets doing all sorts of awful things to places you had pictured.
I know the borders in your neck of the woods have shifted a lot, and it is too bad that the Soviet Union took away Lviv from Poland as I am sure Stalin wanted revenge after being defeated by the Polish in the Bolsevik-Polish war.
It really is shameful that the Ukrainian Government gives no money for upkeeping the cemetary especially because of its history. Even Russia has done something with Katyn Forest, and surely Ukraine can at least provide the area you had pictured with upkeep? It is good that there are people watching over that place as I am sure it is sacred, and it is amazing it survived the Soviet period as I had heard of stories of the Soviets doing all sorts of awful things to places you had pictured.
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