Family remains of three people found. Their grave tells a horrifying story

The discovery of the family grave took place on March 12, 2024. At that time, people from Pracownia Badań Historycznych i Archeologicznych Pomost were carrying out exhumation work on Piątnicka Street in Legnica (Lower Silesian Voivodeship). It was the courtyard of one of the rural buildings that formerly belonged to the independent village of Piątnica/Pfaffendorf Kreis Liegnitz.

As we read on the workshop's Facebook profile:

At the location indicated by witnesses, we discovered the grave of three people—a German family who died in 1945 as a result of what is known as extended suicide. The remains found belonged to two women and one man. We documented gunshot wounds in the victims' skulls. In addition, in the burial pit we also recorded relics of a wooden door that had apparently been used to cover the buried bodies.

We would like to sincerely thank the members of Stowarzyszenie Tiliae, Muzeum Miedzi w Legnicy, and the property owners for their help in locating the grave and reconstructing its history.

We appeal to all people of goodwill to provide information about burial sites of German and Polish soldiers, as well as Wielkopolska Insurgents, from the following voivodeships: Greater Poland, Lower Silesian, Lubusz, West Pomeranian, Opole, and Kuyavian-Pomeranian.

Every piece of information is very valuable to us, and we will carefully verify each one. We also inform you that anyone reporting such a site bears no legal, financial, or moral responsibility. Let us help build “Polish-German reconciliation.”

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