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.
This camp, made up of several concrete barracks, was built in 1941 by Soviet soldiers held in precarious tents and living in appalling conditions. In the following years, men and women of other nationalities were detained there, including French, Poles, Dutch and Italians. They were employed in a factory for the production and recovery of explosive munitions (including missiles of various ranges, shells, bombs, notably gas bombs), probably belonging to the German armament company "HASAG", destroyed in 1945. Neither the identity nor the exact number of prisoners who stayed in the camp is known to this day. As for the number of prisoners who died in captivity, it would amount, according to the testimonies of former Polish prisoners, to around 300. These were mainly Russians, who died of a typhus epidemic, but also of cold and hunger; some are said to have even been shot once the construction of the factory was completed and then buried in pits nearby. In October 2013, research work was initiated on the cemetery with the aim of verifying this data, and new mass graves have been discovered since.
The various commemorative elements erected in the cemetery date from 1987. On the far left there is a stone monument in the Soviet style, composed of four parts. Further to the right, near the corner of the cemetery grounds bounded by a wooden fence, three wooden crosses are erected: from left to right, a Catholic cross, an Orthodox cross and a Greek Catholic cross (of the same appearance as the first). Just in front, on a rectangular black granite stone, roughly hewn, is inscribed in Polish: "In memory". The rest of the inscription is to be read on the nine rectangular grey granite stones aligned in a semicircle in front of the black stone, each bearing a plaque indicating the nationality. The plaque "of the French" is affixed to the third stone from the left.