Memorial for the Soldiers of the Home Army Lublin

This bronze plaque on the wall of Lublin Castle commemorates the victims from the time when the building was used as a prison by the Nazis and later by the Russian and Polish secret services.

Lublin Castle served as a prison for a total of 128 years. Between 1831 and 1915, it was used by the Tsarist Empire, then by independent Poland, and in 1939 it was taken over by the German occupiers. During that period, tens of thousands of Polish resistance fighters were held here before being sent to concentration camps. From August 1944, the Russian secret services moved in. During those years, thousands of Poles (including many former resistance fighters) were tortured, murdered and sent to the Gulags as “opponents of communism”.

The plaque is dedicated to the Soldiers of the Home Army and the Activists of the Delegation and bears a quote from Polish Marshal J. Pidsulski: “Being defeated and not surrendering is a victory”.

The castle is now used as a museum by the City of Lublin.

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Anne Bolijn