Old Orthodox cemetery in village Kniazie. Eastern Poland. OC

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1. Kniazie is a village in Poland situated in Lubelskie Voivodeship, in Tomaszów County, in Lubycza Królewska Municipality.

   In the years 1975-1998, administratively the village belonged to Zamość Province.

   During World War II, on 4 October 1942, a bloody pacification of Lubycza-Kniazie, Lubycza Królewska, Szalenik, Żyłka took place, carried out by the German occupiers. The Germans murdered then about 53 innocent civilians. The pretext for this was that the civilians were falsely accused by wachermen from the crew of the German SS-Sonderkommando Belzec extermination camp in Belzec, who were guarding the horses of the camp commandant SS-Hauptsturmführer Gotlieb Hering – of setting fire to a stable with 3 horses. The perpetrators of the arson were the drunken wachmans of the death camp themselves. The revenge of the commander of the German death camp in Belzec, Gotlieb Hering, on the civilian population was bloody, based on false accusations by the Wachmans. He set out at the head of about 100 German guards and wachmans from the camp to murder the surrounding civilian population. In Lubycza-Kniaza the Germans shot 22 people at that time. The victims were buried, among others, in the cemetery in Lubycza-Kniaza.

2. The one at 0:13 says “Sleep, my little dove!”

3. Love the old orthography used on the gravestones.

4. Not spooky at all. Nope nopety nope

5. There is something hauntingly beautiful about old cemeteries like this