Polish war cemetery, Monte Cassino, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy, Europe
The Polish war cemetery at Monte Cassino holds the graves of over a thousand Poles who died storming the bombed-out Benedictine abbey atop the mountain in May 1944, during the Battle of Monte Cassino. The cemetery is maintained by the Council for the Protection of Memorial Sites of Struggle and Martyrdom. The religious affiliations of the deceased are indicated by three types of headstone: Christina crosses for Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox and Jewish headstones bearing the Star of David. The cemetery also holds the grave of General Władysław Anders, who had commanded the Polish forces that captured Monte Cassino. Anders died in London in 1970 and his ashes were interred in the cemetery. The cemetery is located on the slopes of what was designated as Point 445 and the abbey on the mountain of Monte Cassino. The majority of the soldiers buried here are from the Polish 2nd Army Corps of Lieutenant General Władysław Anders. Soldiers from this corps repeatedly attacked the German defenders inside the monastery at Monte Cassino during May 1944. On the morning of 18 May 1944, Polish forces finally entered the ruins of the abbey and hoisted the Polish flag. The first interments in the cemetery occurred in 1944 and the cemetery was completed in 1946 based on designs by Wacław Hryniewicz and Jerzy Skolimowski. The official consecration of the site took place on September 1, 1945.
Montecassino Abbey & Polish Cemetary - Cassino Italy - DJI Mavic Pro Drone Video
DJI Mavic Pro Drone flight over Montecassino Abbey & The Polish Cemetary in Cassino Italy.
Polish Cemetery at Monte Cassino - Italy - Battle of Monte Cassino - Mosteiro de São Bento
The Polish Cemetery at Monte Cassino holds the graves of over a thousand Poles who died, storming the bombed-out Benedictine abbey atop the mountain in May 1944, during the Battle of Monte Cassino - Cemitério Polonês - Itália - Importante campo de batalha da Segunda Guerra Mundial - Ao fundo possui vista do Mosteiro de São Bento - By Marcelo Miranda Lamy
Katy Carr sings, 'Wojtek,' at The Polish Cemetery, Monte Cassino, Italy
Katy Carr visited The Polish Cemetery at Monte Cassino, Italy on 17th and 18th May 2014 to join the commemoration ceremony for the 70th Anniversary of the Battle of Monte Cassino. This video was filmed by Hannah Lovell and captures Katy's impromtu performance of her song 'Wojtek' with Polish reenactment specialists from Poland representing their relatives who had fought in the Polish II Corps during the battle.
Katy song 'Wojtek,' was inspired by a Syrian brown bear cub found in Iran and adopted by soldiers of the 22nd Artillery Supply Company of the Polish II Corps. During the Battle of Monte Cassino, Wojtek helped move ammunition. The name Wojtek is a diminutive form of Wojciech, an old Slavic name that is still common in Poland today and means he who enjoys war or smiling warrior. The bear became the beloved mascot of the Polish soldiers.
Katy Carr also performed the song amongst other songs from her album 'Paszport,' at a special performance on 17th May for the Mayor of Cassino and the Polish veterans in Cassino and the performance was in association with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Poland, The Polish Embassy in Rome and hosted in cooperation with the Town of Cassino, Italy.
Polish military cemetery at Monte Cassino - Cmentarz wojskowy na Monte Cassino
The Polish military cemetery at Monte Cassino overlooks the abbey and is below Hill 597 which was one of the most important positions during the battle in this sector of the Gustav Line. It was laid out in the winter of 1944 - 45, a few months after the battle.
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Lech Walesa visit Polish Cemetery in Cassino Oct 2018
private visit of Lech Walesa at Polish War Cemetery in Cassino (in front of the Abbey of Montecassino)
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The Commonwealth War Graves Commission's Cassino War Cemetery is one of the most evocative locations anywhere on the Second World War battlefields of Europe – due to the fierce fighting witnessed here 75 years ago.
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Monte Cassino Polish Cemetery
In the final allied assault on Mnte Cassino Polish regiments took particularly heavy casualties. Over 1000 Polish soldiers are buried close to where they fell.
Some twenty jewish Poles are located to the front on the right.
A Trip to the Cassino War Cemetery in Italy - WWII
While in Naples, we took a side trip to the Cassino War Cemetery in Cassino, Italy. Within the Cassino War Cemetery is the Cassino Memorial.
49,261 members of the British Commonwealth died in the fighting in Italy and many of them have no known grave. These soldiers are memorialized on the walls of the Cassino Memorial.
Of the 4,054 names on the Cassino Memorial panels, 194 are Canadian. The Memorial itself consists of 14 marble pillars rising 5 metres on either side of a reflecting pool. The 4,054 names are inscribed on the pillars.
My wife's great uncle Wilfred Nelson Nadon is among the names, so we paid him and the other Canadians memorialized and interred at the cemetery a visit in May 2008.
Cassino War Cemetery Italy
My uncle is buried here, my Aunt & cousins in pics
Abbey of Montecassino, Cassino, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy, Europe
The Abbey of Montecassino is a Benedictine monastery located on the summit of Montecassino, in Lazio. Since December 2014, the site has been managed by the Lazio Museums. It is the oldest monastery in Italy along with the monastery of Santa Scolastica. It rises 516 meters above sea level. Founded in 529 by San Benedetto da Norcia on the site of an ancient tower and a temple dedicated to Apollo, located at 519 meters above sea level, it has undergone an alternate story of destruction, looting, earthquakes and more. subsequent reconstructions. In these forms the ancient monastery had come down to us before February 18, 1944, during the second phase of the battle of Cassino, a massive bombardment of the allied forces, which mistakenly suspected the presence of German departments, the destroy again. The bombing began on the morning of February 15 and as many as 142 heavy bombers and 114 medium bombers razed the abbey to the ground. In the course of this, numerous civilians who had sought refuge inside the building died, while outside were killed by bombs several German soldiers and even forty soldiers of the Indian division. Soldier Walter M. Miller, future writer, took part in the bombardment and from this experience he drew inspiration for his most important work, Un cantico per Leibowitz. Thanks to the then arciabate Gregorio Diamare, and to Colonel Julius Schlegel of the Armored Division Hermann Göring, the archive and the most valuable bibliographic documents were saved. The bombing turned out to be a tragic mistake in military tactics. According to the historian Herbert Bloch, the bombing was not only a useless operation from the military point of view but also extremely harmful from the strategic point of view: Bloch claimed that the rubble of the bombing, immediately occupied by the Germans, had offered a precious shelter, which allowed them to hold that position for a long time, from which they could target allied troops, inflicting very serious losses on anyone who tried to cross the Gustav line . The reconstruction, which began immediately after the end of the war, aimed at an exact reproduction of the destroyed architecture. The restoration was carried out from 1948 to 1956, under the direction of the engineer Giuseppe Breccia Fratadocchi, who carried out a reconstruction of the interior of the abbey with blind and silent spaces between the cornices of the vaults, opposed by some art historians. The task of melting the bells of the abbey was assigned in 1949 to the Pontifical Foundry of Bells Marinelli of Agnone. In the eighties a series of frescoes were commissioned to Pietro Annigoni from the abbot Fabio Bernardo D'Onorio. Various master students participated in the creation of the pictorial cycle, including Romano Stefanelli, Ben Long and Silvestro Pistolesi. Pope Benedict XVI visited Montecassino on May 24, 2009, the 65th anniversary of the destruction of the abbey. The pontiff - who at the time of his election on the throne of Peter had chosen his name also inspired by the figure of St. Benedict of Norcia - prayed at the tomb of the saint, recalling its importance in European cultural formation.
Monte Cassino WW2 Cemetery
Just a short video to pay tribute to those brave polish soldiers that died during the Battle of Monte Cassino, Italy, during WW2.
WŁOSI ODDALI HOŁD ŻOŁNIERZOM GEN. ANDERSA
Italian nation honors Polish soldiers fought at Monte Cassino.
Serce mocniej zabiło, gdy usłyszałem jak dziś Włoski naród odnosi się do żołnierzy generała Andersa walczących pod MONTE CASSINO.
The Battle of Monte Cassino #WWII
One of the longest and bloodiest battles of World War II, marked by assaults by the Allies against the Winter Line in Italy held by the German forces during the Italian Campaign of World War II. During the battle the Allies struggled to capture the western anchor of the Gustav Line and the Abbey of Monte Cassino. With several offensives failing, only the launch of Operation Diadem in May 1944 did finally allow the Second Polish Corps to succeed in capturing the Abbey of Monte Cassino and effectively opening the Allied armies the road to Rome.
Places to see in ( Cassino - Italy )
Places to see in ( Cassino - Italy )
Cassino is a comune in the province of Frosinone, Italy, at the southern end of the region of Lazio, the last City of the Latin Valley. Cassino is located at the foot of Monte Cairo near the confluence of the Gari and Liri rivers. The city is best known as the site of the Abbey of Montecassino and the Battle of Monte Cassino during World War II, which resulted in huge Allied and German casualties as well as the near total destruction of the town itself. It is also home to the University of Cassino. Cassino has a population of 35,860 As of August 2015, making it the second largest town in the province.
Cassino's origins lie in the Volscan settlement of Casinum, sited atop the hill of Cassino near Monte Cairo, five kilometres to the north. Casinum passed under the control of the Samnites, but the Romans eventually gained control of Casinum, establishing a fortified colony there in 312 BC. During the Roman era the most venerated god was Apollo, whose temple rose up on Monte Cassino, where today stands the abbey. At least once during Punic Wars, Hannibal passed near Casinum. Casinum was also the site of a villa presumed to belong to Marcus Terentius Varro.
Cassino is located at the southern end of the region of Lazio and at the northern end of the historical region called Terra di Lavoro. The city centre is set in a valley at the foot of Monte Cassino and Monte Cairo. Cassino is distant 123 km (76 mi) from Rome, 101 km (63 mi) from Naples, 28 km (17 mi) from the coast (Gulf of Gaeta) and 24 km (15 mi) from the Parco nazionale d'Abruzzo, Lazio e Molise. The town is crossed by the rivers Gari and Rapido that join themselves in the area of the Varronian Thermal Baths; forward, in the frazione of Sant'Angelo in Theodice, the Gari joins the Liri, becoming Garigliano, the river that marks the border between the regions Lazio and Campania.
Alot to see in Cassino such as :
Abbey of Monte Cassino Founded by St. Benedict in 529, the Abbey of Monte Cassino is one of the most famous monasteries in the world and is the source of the Benedictine Order.
Casinum Roman city
Roman theatre: still used in the summer for events, shows and concerts.
Roman amphitheatre
Part of the historical Via Latina
Mausoleum of Ummidia Quadratilla
Rocca Janula: a castle overlooking the city, which was one of Abbey's historical strongholds. Recently restored, it is not visitable.
Cassino War Cemetery
German War Cemetery
Polish Cemetery
Villa Comunale: it is the main public park in the town.
Baden Powell Park: second public park, that host the main non profit associations and clubs in the town.
Varronian Thermal Baths: thermal area located where there used to be Marcus Terentius Varro's villa.
Historiale: Second World War multimedial museum, created by Carlo Rambaldi.
National Archaeological Museum G.Carrettoni
CAMUSAC: museum of contemporary art.
( Cassino - Italy ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting Cassino . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Cassino - Italy
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All Blacks visit Cassino War Cemetery in Italy
All Blacks Kieran Read, Codie Taylor, Dane Coles and Aaron Smith visit the Cassino War Cemetery in Italy. Among some 457 New Zealand Soldiers who are burried here are two All Blacks, George Hart and Jack Harris. Lest We Forget.
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German Cemetery. Monte Cassino
20,000 dead.
The Abbey of Montecassino | Italia Slow Tour
Slow Tour riding a horse, along the path of St Benedict that leads to the great Abbey of Montecassino, rising up above the Liri valley. Beneath the walls of the abbey there is a magnificent and ancient farm, representing quite well the Benedictine Order, based on ora et labora: the monks not only had to pray, but to work as well, to produce wealth for the abbey and for everything that surrounded it.
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Polish tank memorial. Monte Cassino
Hit a Teller mine. All crew killed.
Monte Cassino, Italy
Monte Cassino, Italy