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Cemetery without graves near Ostra Turnia: 567 Tatra victims remembered with crosses
At Poprad Pond on the Slovak side of the Tatras there exists a necropolis without a single grave — 567 people, including Wanda Rutkiewicz and Jerzy Kukuczka, are memorialized by colorful crosses and 415 metal plaques on the rocks. Czech painter Otakar Štáfl realized the initiative to create a shared place of remembrance, collecting plaques here since instead of scattering them at accident sites. Štáfl died tragically with his wife at the end of World War II when an Allied bomb hit their Prague apartment — since their names too have appeared on the rocks. The necropolis at an altit...
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