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A chapel on the bank of the Rokitnica River, slightly off to the side of the road, but well-kept and in quite good condition, with a statue of Mary inside.

Biographers of the great composer from the national institute named after him have established that Chopin probably spent his holidays in the countryside in the years 1820-23. These were mainly short family visits to Żelazowa Wola. At that time, he was invited by the Marylskis, parents of his older colleague, Eustachy Marylski, to their estate in Książenice.

Witold Pilecki, alias "Witold", "Druh"; conspiratorial names "Roman Jezierski", "Tomasz Serafiński", "Leon Bryjak", "Jan Uznański", "Witold Smoliński"; code T-IV[1] (born April 30?/May 13, 1901 in Ołoniec, died May 25, 1948 in Warsaw) – captain of the Polish Army cavalry, co-founder of the Polish Secret Army, soldier of the Home Army, prisoner and organizer of the resistance movement in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Author of reports on the Holocaust, the so-called Pilecki Reports. Accused and sentenced to death by the communist authorities of the People's Republic of Poland, executed in 1948. The verdict was annulled in 1990. In 2006, he was posthumously awarded the Order of the White Eagle, in 2013 he was promoted to the rank of colonel. Hello and glory to the heroes!

Founded in the second half of the 18th century. According to the parish chronicle, the cemetery already existed in 1759. Permission to establish it was given by Father Jan Klemens Mokronowski, who allowed the kahal to bury the dead "outside the city, in a designated field, modestly, without pomp and ostentation". For some time, it also served Jews living in Warsaw. The entrance was from the west. A small funeral home was probably built by the gate. In 1845, at the cost of "541 silver rubles and 83 kopecks", the cemetery was surrounded by a wooden fence. At that time, the cemetery occupied a plot of land measuring 104 m x approx. 72-74 m. At the end of the 19th century, the area was expanded by purchasing a plot of land on the northern side. At the same time, a brick fence was built, at the same time moving the gate north. In 1929 and 1934, further land purchases were made to expand the cemetery. During World War I, the cemetery was partially devastated. Grodzisk priest Mikołaj Bojanek wrote that "the cemetery was robbed and desecrated". In 1922, restoration work was carried out, including repairing the fence. During World War II, some of the tombstones were used for construction work on the orders of the Germans. The brick fence was also dismantled. At that time, burials were held in the cemetery. On September 30, 1944, three people were shot in the cemetery, at least one of whom was of Jewish origin. It is possible that the bodies of the victims were buried near the place of execution. On September 20, 1948, in connection with the issuance of a Circular by the Ministry of Public Administration calling on the authorities to return the matzevot used for construction work and street hardening, the Municipal Board of Grodzisk Mazowiecki stated: "the German occupier probably destroyed the fence [...] and the tombstones in 1942. He used both bricks and tombstones to line the roadway of Chrzanowska Street [...] with an area of approximately 250 square meters. Removing the aforementioned rubble would be very difficult and expensive, and there is no Jewish community representative in this city to whom the aforementioned rubble could be transferred. [...] The rest of the fence should be dismantled, the remaining slabs should be removed: everything should be secured, and the area should be surrounded with a hedge and arranged as a park." Despite earlier devastation, about two hundred tombstones or their fragments have survived to this day. They are made mostly of sandstone and contain inscriptions in Hebrew (single steles with inscriptions in Polish and one with an epitaph in Aramaic have survived).

A chapel with a statue of Mary.

Wacława Ada Obłękowska, pseudonym "Hela" (born November 15, 1920 in Radonie, died March 20, 2015) – Polish teacher, pedagogue, social activist and honorary citizen of Grodzisk Mazowiecki. She was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.

A piano in memory of Chopin's visit to Książenice. Illuminated at night.