Monument to those killed in the East (Pomnik Poleglym i Pomordowanym na Wschodzie) description and photos - Poland: Warsaw (Topic)

Monument to those killed in the East (Pomnik Poleglym i Pomordowanym na Wschodzie) description and photos - Poland: Warsaw. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. Title in English - Pomnik Poleglym i Pomordowanym na Wschodzie.

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The monument to the dead and tortured in the East is a monument located on Muronovskaya Street in Warsaw.

The monument was created by Polish sculptor Maximilian Biskupski, a graduate of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. The monument to those killed and tortured in the East was opened on September 17, 1995, on the 56th anniversary of the Soviet Union's aggression against Poland. The monument was created in memory of the Poles who were killed in labor camps in Siberia, as well as the victims of Katyn, who died in 1940 during mass executions. According to archival data, on March 5, 1940, 21,857 Polish citizens were shot.

The almost seven-meter-high monument depicts a railroad car without walls, in which a large number of crosses are installed. Each tie has marks with the names of settlements, where the labor camps were located, or massacres of Polish citizens were committed.

The Federation of Katyn Families took care of the monument. In 1999, at the monument, Blessed. John Paul II during his visit to Warsaw. In 2006, Pope Benedict XVI visited it during his pilgrimage trip to Poland.

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