Its construction began in 1944, and coal mining started six years later. In 1972, the mine was connected with the Piast Coal Mine, which is how the Ziemowit Coal Mine was established. It is one of the largest mines in Poland and Europe and extracts up to 16 000 tons of coal daily.
What happens when someone you love goes missing on a European border? There is still no European law that requires governments to identify the dead and notify their families. Over half the graves we found in our investigation were buried without a name. We present the stories of Europe’s border graves in three collections of 360 degree videos, taking us to border cemeteries in Spain, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, and Poland.
