Places of remembrance

This monument, dedicated to the memory of the comte Louis de Bréhan de Plélo (1699-1734), was inaugurated in Gdańsk on 27 May 2014, a date marking the 280th anniversary of his death, in the presence…

This sandstone plaque, dating from the early 19th century, is set into the wall at the centre of the inner arch of the Gwiazda fort of the town of Głogów.

This stone bust of a Napoleonic soldier, placed on a pedestal in the form of a rectangular column, was erected in 1997 to the east of the town of Szczecinek (Western Pomerania), on St George's hill,…

This column surmounted by a gilded crucifix is the oldest monument of the town of Kalisz (Greater Poland Voivodeship), which stands in front of the Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin…

This monument, composed of granite blocks, was erected in 1930, in the park behind the Zamoyski palace of the village of Kozłówka (Lublin Voivodeship), on the initiative of the heirs of Aniela z…

Very close to Krępki, a small village situated in the woods in Pomerania, not far from the town of Czersk, there stood a few decades ago the individual graves of 14 soldiers of the Grande Armée,…

To the north-west of the last buildings of the village of Andrzejów (Godziszów commune, Lublin Voivodeship), on the road leading to the village of Węglisk, is the grave of two French soldiers of the…

In 1813, during the retreat from Russia, some forty soldiers of the Grande Armée who died in the town of Żagań (Lubusz Voivodeship) from an infectious disease were buried in a pit quite far from the…

In the town of Skarszewy in Pomerania there was a cemetery built in 1860 where French Napoleonic soldiers were buried, belonging to the division of General Ménard, killed in the surrounding area…

On 14 August 1999, on the occasion of the 230th anniversary of Napoleon's birth, a stone with a commemorative plaque was unveiled in the village of Chojno, Greater Poland Voivodeship, to honour the…

During the retreat from Russia, soldiers of the Grande Armée succumbed to an epidemic in 1813. Having died at the hospital of Baszków, they were buried in a mass grave and a cross was planted there.

This monument pays tribute to the combatants of the Battle of Gołymin (in Mazovia), which took place on 26 December 1806.

In the surroundings of the village of Pszczew, on the border between the Greater Poland and Lubusz voivodeships, Napoleonic soldiers were massacred in February by the cavalry of the Don Cossacks, led…

This bust of Napoleon on a pedestal was inaugurated on 5 May 2011, for the 190th anniversary of the Emperor's death, on the Square of the Insurgents of Warszawa in the presence of, among others, the…

On a road at the edge of the woods, near the villages of Gościeszyn, Gołąbek and Ochodza, not far from the town of Gniezno (Greater Poland voivodeship), lies the grave of an unknown Napoleonic…

At Wardęgowo, Napoleonic soldiers perished during the retreat from Russia, in 1812.

The cemetery of Opinogóra was created in 1824 at the edge of the park, on land belonging to the Krasiński family of the Polish nobility.

The cemetery of the Modlin fortress was established during the Napoleonic wars. The combatants of the Modlin fortress in 1813 were the first soldiers to be buried there.

At Zawodzie (a district of Jemielnica), there is an old French cemetery from 1813, on the site of which a monument is erected bearing an inscription in French: "To the soldiers of the Grande Armée…

On this monument dedicated to the soldiers of the Grande Armée who died in 1807 at the hospital of Zalewo, one can read, in French: "Here, in the former cemetery of the communal hôtel-dieu, which…

During the campaign of 1807, a French infantry regiment entered Olsztyn, on 1 January. The inhabitants of the town welcomed them as liberators.

Napoleon's Hill was created in 1808 by the French soldiers of Szczecin, who had decided to celebrate the thirty-ninth anniversary of Napoleon I.

During the retreat from Russia, in 1812-1813, many soldiers of the Grande Armée died of wounds, illness or exhaustion at the hospital of Chojnice.

In the military cemetery of Tczewska Street rest the soldiers of the Grande Armée from the Prussian campaign (1807) and the retreat from Russia (1812-1813).

The January Uprising, which broke out on 22 January 1863, lasted until the spring of 1864.

Kołacinek Cemetery was created in the 19th century.

The French plot is located in the south-eastern part of the Starofarny Cemetery in Bydgoszcz, the capital of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship.

This cemetery, located about two kilometres from the village of Łambinowice (Lamsdorf in German, Opole Voivodeship), was initially built during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871 for the 52 French…

During the Franco-Prussian War, nearly 1,700 French prisoners were held in 28 barracks near the district of Krzekowo in very poor conditions.

The Citadel Park is a large park located on the site of Fort Winiary, a 19th-century fortified area to the north of the town centre.

The monument honours the memory of the 19 French soldiers of the 46th Alpine Rifle Division.

At the intersection of Armii Krajowej and Kolejowa streets lies a former military cemetery, closed down in the era of the Polish People's Republic and today a "youth park".

During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871, more than 5,000 French soldiers were taken prisoner in the citadel of the town of Kołobrzeg in Western Pomerania.

The communal cemetery of Polczyn-Zdroj contains two places of remembrance. The first is not linked to French remembrance.

In the communal cemetery of Inowrocław, in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, lies the grave of 3 French soldiers who died in captivity in 1918.

At Markajmy, in the commune of Lidzbark-Warminski, lies a military cemetery of the First World War. Located in a forest, over an area of 1.08 hectares, it is increasingly buried under vegetation.

This First World War military cemetery was established next to the field hospital near the barracks of the 4th Grenadier Regiment of King Frederick the Great.

In Sikorski Park, below the Bismarck tower, several dozen soldiers died during the marches and combats of various armies (mainly French and Russian) and were buried within the area of the Protestant…

After the Russian defeat at Tannenberg in 1914, the German authorities established at the end of August 1914 a large prisoner-of-war camp at Piła.

Bernard Montalègre commanded the 27th Alpine Light Infantry Battalion, deployed in Upper Silesia from 1919 to 1922, before taking up garrison at Annecy in the summer of 1922.

In the years 1920-1922, on the territory of Upper Silesia, which was then disputed between the Weimar Republic and Poland, German "irregulars" and Polish "volunteers" clashed.

Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929), Marshal of France, of Poland and of the United Kingdom, knight of the Order of the White Eagle, the highest Polish distinction, Grand Cross of the Order Virtuti Militari,…

Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929), Marshal of France, of Poland and of the United Kingdom, knight of the Order of the White Eagle, the highest Polish distinction, Grand Cross of the Order Virtuti Militari,…

On 26 May 2022, Ambassador Frédéric Billet took part in the ceremony to unveil the bust of Georges Clemenceau at Warszawa, erected on the square bearing the name of the French statesman.

The commemorative plaque in honour of General Maxime Weygand, located at Krakowskie Przedmieście 5, pays tribute to his important role in Poland, notably during the year 1920.

In Warsaw, a monument honours the French soldiers who fell in Poland alongside their Polish brothers-in-arms (1919–1921).

Stalag 369, built on a plot of land 6 kilometres south-west of Kraków, between Kobierzyn (currently the 8th district of Kraków) and Borek Fałęcki, was opened on 5 June 1942 to intern prisoners of war…

The cemetery located on Okszowska Street was created in June 1941. Until July 1944, 60,000 prisoner-of-war soldiers were buried there.

Stalag III C was opened in 1939 in the village of Drzewice, currently the north-western district of the town of Kostrzyn-nad-Odrą, on the site of a former munitions depot near the village's old…

Stalag VIII-A was created in August 1939 at Görlitz, today the border town of Görlitz-Zgorzelec.

Stalag XXI-A at Shildberg operated from September 1938 to March 1943. Initially, the camp held civilian prisoners, housed in the various buildings of the town.

Oflag II-B at Arnswalde opened in 1939 to hold officers of the Polish army. On 30 June 1940, a group of 345 French officers and 140 enlisted men were held there.

The Grossborn camp, opened in 1939, first held French officers. The first escape attempts were reported as early as August 1940, taking advantage of the walks outside the camp.

The marble grave located near the commemorative memorial bears the names of fifteen French individuals, victims of the Second World War. The people buried here are:

On 14 December 1939, in the former institute for the poor (built in 1776 at the request of Frederick II, King of Prussia), Oflag VIII A of Kreuzburg was created.

Oflag VIII-F was created at Wahlstatt (today Legnickie Pole in Poland) in July 1940. It held French and Belgian prisoners.

The Hammerstein prisoner camp, after having served as a prisoner camp during the First World War and as a Nazi concentration camp in 1933 for German communists, opened at the end of September 1939…

The Zwierzyniec camp was established by the Germans in 1940 and initially served as a transit camp for forced labourers.

Block no. 20 of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum, located in the former Auschwitz I concentration camp, is dedicated to the memory of the 76,000 French victims deported to the Auschwitz camps.

The French slab of the international monument to the victims is installed on the site of Auschwitz II, between crematoria II and III.

Majdanek, during the Second World War, was at once a Nazi extermination centre, a prisoner-of-war camp and a Nazi concentration camp, located 2 km south of the centre of the city of Lublin.

The Gross-Rosen camp was established in August 1940, at first as a sub-camp of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, whose prisoners were assigned to work in the local granite quarry.

Opened in 1942 as part of “Aktion Reinhard”, Sobibór was one of the Nazi extermination centres in occupied Poland. In the spring of 1943, several convoys from Drancy brought Jews deported from France there.

Opened on 2 September 1939 near Sztutowo, east of Gdańsk, Stutthof was the first German concentration camp established on Polish soil. French detainees were among its inmates.

The French military cemetery of Gdańsk was created to gather together the bodies of Frenchmen who died or were killed on Polish territory, buried in the voivodeships of Olsztyn, Bydgoszcz, Koszalin,…

This bronze statue of the general on a pedestal is located right next to the Charles de Gaulle roundabout, at the intersection of Nowy Świat street and Jerozolimskie avenue, in front of the Banking…

At Urle there is a metal cross painted green; on the base three plaques are fixed bearing the names of 10 French prisoners of war: Pierre MAZERAC, Henri BONNIN, Camille DESPLAT, Julien DHUIN, Lucien…

In early May 1942, a convoy of French prisoners of war arrived at Biała Podlaska. They had been transferred from the penitentiary camp of Rawa-Ruska.

Reymond Lemasson (8/8/1913 – 28/2/1941) is a French airman buried in the municipal cemetery of Syców (ul. Kaliska), not far from the cemetery chapel.

In the cemetery, a mass grave contains the bodies of prisoners of war of various nationalities.

On the wall of the parish church there is a plaque commemorating the death of three French prisoners of war, shot by the Germans in 1945 beneath the tower of Saint Joseph's church during a public…

The first executions in the forest of Niepołomice took place as early as 1939, of officers and soldiers of the regular Polish army.

The burial place of 26 French soldiers of the Second World War, who died between 1942 and 1944, is located in the Agrykola communal cemetery of the town of Elbląg (Warmian-Masurian voivodeship).

This plot, inaugurated on 25 June 2000 in the presence of representatives of the French embassy and of French and Polish veterans, is located at the very north of the Powązki military cemetery (plot…

This cemetery, recognised as a place of national remembrance, is located near a German prisoners' camp of the Second World War, built in the woods near the present-day hamlet of Sosnowice.

The war cemetery of the town of Stargard Szczeciński in Western Pomerania, built in 1914, initially received the Tsarist soldiers who died in the surrounding area at the start of the First World War,…

At Babki Gąsieckie, in a former Evangelical cemetery, one finds the grave of Auguste Aubinais, a French prisoner, who died on 2 June 1941.

In the forest, on the side of Ryn, one finds a former German cemetery which, like many of them in this former Prussian region, has been left to abandon. The last burial took place there in 1965.

In the communal cemetery, a military plot brings together Russian and German soldiers of the First World War, and Polish, German, French and Soviet soldiers of the Second World War.

The greater part of the cemetery is occupied by the graves of Soviet soldiers killed in the surroundings of Olsztyn, Szczytno and Nidzica.

This mass grave contains about 4,670 unknown victims of Nazi terror and of the Soviet massacres of 1945.

"In memory of the sons of France, heroic combatants of the campaign of 1870-1871, victims of German captivity - Szczecin October 1967"

This "pantheon of remembrance of the victims of the Second World War" is located in the municipal cemetery of Bobolice.

In the northern part of the communal cemetery, one finds a mass grave of French prisoners. Their history is unknown.

In the communal cemetery of Wiele, one finds a stone on which is set a plaque in memory of four victims of the Second World War.

In the military cemetery of Grudziądz rest numerous soldiers. The cemetery was created in 1920 by the chaplain of the Grudziądz garrison, Father Władysław Łęga.