Another Discovery at Westerplatte

Today, October 4th, 2024, archaeologists from the Museum of the Second World War uncovered human remains and a Mauser rifle casing near a field artillery position, in one of the bunkers used by the Polish Transit Depot crew in September 1939. The remnants of clothing suggest that the remains belong to a civilian. The discovery has been reported to a prosecutor from the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), who will schedule an exhumation.

Just a week ago, in the same area, the remains of three men along with fragments of civilian clothing were found. Preliminary anthropological examinations suggest these individuals were victims of an execution carried out between 1939 and 1941, during the time when this area served as a German camp for so-called civilian prisoners.