Villard-de-Lans Cemetery
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From September 1940 to June 1946, a Polish high school was set up in Villard de Lans. During this period, it welcomed more than 800 Poles, some of whom, as the war progressed, headed for Great Britain via Spain or North Africa.
Many of them fell downin July and August 1944on the plateau du Vercors.
At Villard cemetery, a single vault houses the graves of six Poles who fell on the field of honor, and that of Wenceslas Godlewski, who died in 1996 and wished to be buried with his fellow soldiers. The coffins of other students and teachers who fell on the plateau have been transferred to the Nécropole Nationale de la Doua (Villeurbanne).
Photo credit and contribution Bernard PERRIN
