Bandar-e Anzali Polish Cemetery

Bandar-e Anzali County, Iran · built 1942

Polish Cemetery in Bandar-e Anzali is a cemetery in Bandar-e Anzali, a city in northern Iran. It was made during Evacuation of Polish civilians from the USSR in World War II. This war cemetery contains the remains of 163 graves of the Polish soldiers of the Anders' Army and 476 graves of the Polish civilians who perished due to sickness during their transport to the Middle East, for a total of 639 graves. Bandar-e Anzali is the port where the Polish Anders' Army disembarked, in an operation that lasted from April 1, 1942 until October 1942, after evacuating from the USSR.

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