The village of Ćwiklice, where there were rudimentary graves of Auschwitz prisoners, was a remembrance of the victims—26 female and 16 male prisoners, including two children, whose corpses were buried near the route where it ran through the village.

      In September 1939, fierce fighting took place on the outskirts of the village of Ćwiklice in southern Poland, and the 16th Polish Infantry Regiment was caught by German tanks in an open area and suffered devastating losses. In January 1945, during the German occupation of World War II, a death march from the Auschwitz concentration camp passed through Ćwiklice, and 42 prisoners (26 women and 16 men) who had been massacred were buried in the village four days later.

    The largest death march took place in January 1945, when the German army marched 56,000 prisoners 56km to the station at Wodzisław, in order to transfer them to other camps, and about 15,000 died on the way. From March 17 to March 21, the SS began forcing approximately 56,000 prisoners to march to their deaths from the Auschwitz camp. Between 9,000 and 15,000 prisoners died on the death march from the Auschwitz concentration camp.

    The route of the death march passed through the village of Tuniclice, and the bodies of the victims - 26 women and 16 men prisoners (including two children) from the Auschwitz concentration camp - were buried near the evacuation route through the village. A small symbolic mound of earth and a steel cross were erected there as a simple grave. In the early 1950s, these bodies were exhumed and transferred to the Holy Cross Cemetery in Puchina.